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Sean Faircloth:
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It is important that refutations of pseudo-science are available and easily accessible.
Simply refuting Behe's suppositions does not mean "irreducible complexity" stories about flagellum, the HIV-1 virus go away.
Only 3 months ago, one of the main Christian newspapers in the netherlands, Nederlands Dagblad, printed a silly article entitled "science says God exists", referring both to Behe's claims and about how remarkable snowflakes are, among others. (article in question is at following link:
http://www.nd.nl/Document.aspx?document=nd_artikel&vorigDocument=nd_zoekresultaten&id=109234
It really is like trying to stop weeds growing in the garden. So well done in providing a reference point that can help combat this!
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