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The section he's referring to is on page 159 of my Penguin edition - it's in the index. :-D
No, not quite. The way I read it, Richard is trying to illustrate the difference of something which is impossible in principle and something which is merely massively unlikely. There is no law which states that all the atoms in an object can't move in unison, but it's only one vanishingly small possibility among all the permutations in which the billions of atoms could move.
Behe is telling the truth in order to decieve, a common tactic among the religious.
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