James Tour and his 60-day challenge

[Faizal_Ali]

@lee_merrill

You gave two challenges, per the exchange I quoted, and the exchange you quoted! I answered both of them.

Stop lying. I only issued one challenge, and you did not answer it. You "answered: some other “challenge” that you just made up yourself.

@lee_merrill

I agree, I don’t deny this.

Another lie. You have been consistently insisting that Axe had responded to Art’s 2018 article. True, you have been insisting that this was done thru what you wrote her, and what Axe had written in 2011. That just demonstrates how perpetually confused you are.

@lee_merrill

But I went through each point Axe made, showed Art Hunt how they were relevant, and he did object, but he didn’t refute the points I made. And then withdrew.

More lies. I have already linked to where he responded to your comments. I won’t do it again.

But, it would be nice to get a clear statement from you on this subject: Douglas Axe has never responded to this article by Art Hunt, despite the fact that he was explicitly invited to do so and had responded to previous things written by Art on this forum. Do you admit this is true?

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…