Perplexing: Michael Behe’s Critics Falsely Claim He Ignores Exaptation

@mung if you want to play word games it cuts both ways. This ENV article agrees with us that Behe never mentioned “exaptation,” confirming that we the reviewers were correct.

Also we never accused him of anything. We are discussing what he said in his book.

Setting aside the use of the specific term (which he did not use) I can grant he mentions some related concepts in passing. Behe often brings up concepts briefly just to dimiss them because he deems they are not relevant to his argument. This is just another example of this sort.

He never mentions “exaptation”, and never engages how this impacts his devolution argument, though he does mention some related concepts just to dismiss them. We are seeing why this matters in the Polar Bear example.

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