Creationist Behe dropped by his own University Department
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:51 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books ... ins-t.html
Considered by most the poster child of the creationist movement as to give some scientific credibility to the cause, Behe was dropped not only by his University but also had his work peer reviewed by not just Dawkins but by his own peers. All of which has said in so many words, "You dug yourself your own grave".
I had expected to be as irritated by Michael Behe’s second book as by his first. I had not expected to feel sorry for him. The first — “Darwin’s Black Box” (1996), which purported to make the scientific case for “intelligent design” — was enlivened by a spark of conviction, however misguided. The second is the book of a man who has given up. Trapped along a false path of his own rather unintelligent design, Behe has left himself no escape. Poster boy of creationists everywhere, he has cut himself adrift from the world of real science. And real science, in the shape of his own department of biological sciences at Lehigh University, has publicly disowned him, via a remarkable disclaimer on its Web site: “While we respect Prof. Behe’s right to express his views, they are his alone and are in no way endorsed by the department. It is our collective position that intelligent design has no basis in science, has not been tested experimentally and should not be regarded as scientific.” As the Chicago geneticist Jerry Coyne wrote recently, in a devastating review of Behe’s work in The New Republic, it would be hard to find a precedent.
Considered by most the poster child of the creationist movement as to give some scientific credibility to the cause, Behe was dropped not only by his University but also had his work peer reviewed by not just Dawkins but by his own peers. All of which has said in so many words, "You dug yourself your own grave".