James Tour and his 60-day challenge

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@lee_merrill

A response to his challenge, that would also be evidence, no response was given, that also is evidence that they can’t meet the challenge.

Oh, right. So, remind me: Exactly when did Doug Axe respond to this challenge, that was directed at him specifically?

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…