The Argument Clinic

[colewd (Bill Cole)]

@Mercer

You see, a viable scientific hypothesis not only has to make empirical predictions, it must be consistent with all of the extant data. You don’t really have any ID hypothesis, do you?

Hi John
All the MYH 7 data is consistent with Behe’s model. In any population with a 30% neutral AA substitution rate we would expect the MYH 7 data we are seeing.

@Mercer

What does it have to do with it, exactly? The hundreds of alleles are not fixed! The polymorphism of MYH7 shows why Behe has shown nothing but simplistic twaddle intelligently designed to fool YOU.

You are looking at variation in a population with the MYH 7 data. The same would be expected in the population of bacteria in Behe’s model. The issue is the time it takes to fix a functional variant in the population.