Darwin's Black Box
Dr. H. Allen Orr is a Professor of Biology at University of Rochester who studies the genetic changes underlying evolution. He is particularly interested in the genetics of speciation and the genetics of adaptation. Allen Orr wrote an article criticizing Michael Behe saying ¡°The latest attack on evolution is cleverly argued, biologically informed ¨C and wrong.¡± Before starting out with his argument Orr admits that Behe¡¯s book is after all a creationist¡¯s¡¯ dream come true, and that no one can deny Behe¡¯s grasp of biochemistry. Orr says, unlike a few previous biologists who have taken aim at Darwin, Behe is the real thing, even though he tries to prove Behe wrong. What¡¯s different about Behe from his less-sophisticated brethren, according to Orr, is that Behe does not deny evolution. Orr takes Behe seriously; hence this is the reason why he wrote the article.Orr is interested why Behe feels he is especially qualified to critique Darwinism. He says to a historian or an electrician Behe certainly looks qualified since he is a ¡°Biologist¡±. But it is not that simple. By turning the table around Orr starts a new argument saying ¡°If I, an evolutionary biologist, were to announce that biochemistry is
After reading Behe¡¯s book, and numerous criticisms about it, I¡¯m still with Behe. It seems that what Behe has talked about in the book makes more sense to me than any other article or criticism I have read. It could be because I am not an expert in biochemistry and that while reading the book I did not notice some of the false arguments that Behe has made, but certainly so far I haven¡¯t seen an article that¡¯s more convincing than Behe¡¯s book. Even the analogies and the examples, such as the computer programming, that I understand and can relate to still don¡¯t prove Behe wrong. In his article when Orr talks about the computer programming, and that how the source code cannot be traced back to how it all started as one problem and evolved to another; the bottom line is that it initially was created by an intelligent input. It doesn¡¯t matter that in its current state it is irreducibly complex. This whole article by Allen Orr was not only about biochemistry and where Behe made mistakes in him book, but it was also about the whole issue of Darwinism and biochemistry. Orr also talked about why some people are more qualified, and would get more publicity just because they are biochemists. In this article Orr brought out why people take biochemistry more seriously and don¡¯t even consider Darwinism a science. deeply flawed ¨C
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