@Setanta,
There you go. A militant anti-IDer betraying an empty space where a scientific sensibility ought to be for anyone on a science thread.
The desperate desire of such people to assert, without any proof, that "bible thumpers" are their main opponents is another manifestation of the Sitting Duck Syndrome. And such isolationism in that Koran thumpers are excluded and a whole range of other "thumpers" as well.
The argument for irreducible complexity, which asserts that some biochemical structures are too complex to be adequately explained by known evolutionary mechanisms and are therefore more probably the result of intelligent design is ridiculous. It is meaningless. That known evolutionary mechanisms cannot explain the complexity of biochemical structures does not lead to the conclusion that evolutionary mechanisms cannot eventually explain them and nor does it lead to the conclusion of a probabilty that an intelligent designer created them. In fact, the use of the word "probable" undermines faith. The use of the word "some" is a gross fatuity as all biological structures are equally complex being resolved in the last analysis to chemistry and finally to physics.
The argument about the wisdom or otherwise of teaching evolution in schools rests upon completely different scientific criteria and has nothing to do with the complexity of biological structures. It can be argued that it has nothing to do with the Bible either. It has to do with human psychology and social organisation as a dynamic process. (Which is why our anti-IDers flatly refuse to discuss those matters.) That they think it does is proof of their scientific stupidity. Had Behe never been born, a very chancy process putting it mildly, they would have invented another in his place. Their arguments here are based on the vagaries of Behe's conception. And what a useless basis that is for grounding justifications for sexual licence.
Behe's position is a red herring and I strongly suspect that he saw a promising niche and got himself into it with some alacrity having a wife and nine children to keep up and finding himself to have above average rhetorical skills. Anti-IDers assign him significance for no other reason than that he is easy to knock over forgetting (having on Ignore) that knocking him over proves nothing for their case.
What we are doing inviting this style of American reasoning to give lectures in our country is beyond my imagination unless it is for money like other gigs.
Setanta's comment is off topic and full-blown trolling.
