Giltil Asks about the Origin of Life and Evolution

In that prior thread, in order to defend Axe’s ludicrous claim, you mischaracterized Grasse:

Now, of course, that was rather nonresponsive in any event because Axe hadn’t claimed Grasse believed this; he had claimed that modern biologists believe this:

“The current stance is that evolution was so successful that it perfected life to the point where modern forms no longer evolve, making the whole process even further removed from the category of observable phenomena.”

Note what I said about word-dancing. You couldn’t cope with the actual defense of Axe’s statement, so instead of facing the fact that he simply lied about the position of actual modern biologists, you tried to find SOME biologist, ANY biologist, who had ever lived who took the position Axe claimed. You couldn’t find that, so you took Grasse, and misstated what Grasse said.

Why is it so hard to admit Axe lied? I mean, it’s Axe. Does he do anything else? He’s with the Discovery Institute. Do they do anything else? Really, if you want to argue for ID, the DI is your worst enemy: they’ve given this a very, very bad name and any sincere ID advocate should kick them straight to the curb.

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