Did Douglas Axe Disprove Evolution? Spoiler: No

[Faizal_Ali]

@lee_merrill

That’s odd, if the DI’ers had no good points without supporting evidence, they should have vanished, right?

Wrong. Conspiracy theorists, crackpots and other kooks are often very tenacious. Especially when there’s money to be made in the bargain.

@lee_merrill

As is the fact that no one here has been able to refute Axe’s paper, here in this thread!

LOL! It was refuted eight years ago on this very forum. Axe has never responded to this, and you have not provided any indication that you even understand the argument that was made here, never mind refuted it. If you disagree, please quote what you think was your best response. Linky linky, as you say.

Art Hunt to Doug Axe: Invitation to Discuss

11 years ago (give or take), I posted an essay on The Panda’s Thumb that discussed what I believed to me some serious flaws in Doug Axe’s 2004 paper in the Journal of Molecular Biology, or rather, flaws in the ways that the ID community have used the conclusions from that study. Over the years, there have supposedly been some responses from Axe to my essay, but in all reality, to my knowledge, Axe has never addressed the central criticisms I discussed. Joshua has been kind enough to give me a place to revisit this, and maybe elicit a relevant response from the ID community – perhaps Axe, perhaps Anne Gauger, perhaps Brian Miller (the latter two of whom have both avoided my essay with what amount to ad hominem remarks.) What I will do here is: to as briefly as possible, recapitulate my central criticisms so that readers here may understand some of the issues; and raise some new concerns that arose (in my mind) a few years ago, after reading another of Axe’s papers. For starters, let…