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Dude
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Posted - 05/03/2007 :  13:53:47  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message  Reply with Quote
But they got Behe to write the bio/blurb.... seriously.

Talk about an insult.


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-- Thomas Jefferson

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HalfMooner
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Philippines
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Posted - 05/03/2007 :  14:54:57   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
That is so funny! I hope Richard Dawkins will pen a reply. And maybe someday, a good atheist will write Behe's epitaph on his gravestone. Turn-about's fair play.


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beskeptigal
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Posted - 05/03/2007 :  15:48:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Behe writing the bio? That is downright weird.


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beskeptigal
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Posted - 05/03/2007 :  16:02:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
From checking a few others it seems Time has decided Behe was another renowned name in the same or related field. I didn't see any others that had the biggest critic writing the piece. I think Time is giving Behe waaaaay more credit in his field than the scientific community would give him.


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Dude
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Posted - 05/03/2007 :  16:58:54   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Or, more likely, its a dig at Dawkins.

The whole CNN/Time position on atheism is pretty clear.

Although Dobbs had Hitchens on tonight, talking about his new book, and it appears that Lou may be an atheist too. He was giving the book, God Is Not Great, a rave review.


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-- Thomas Jefferson

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Hope, n.
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Kil
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Posted - 05/03/2007 :  17:01:05   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by beskeptigal

From checking a few others it seems Time has decided Behe was another renowned name in the same or related field. I didn't see any others that had the biggest critic writing the piece. I think Time is giving Behe waaaaay more credit in his field than the scientific community would give him.




Or, they have a sense of humor...


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Vegeta
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/03/2007 :  17:33:09   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Vegeta a Private Message  Reply with Quote
behe wasn't too biased though

What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a pink shirt before?

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Dr. Mabuse
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Sweden
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Posted - 05/03/2007 :  21:45:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I sent this to the editor of TIME:

Hello!

Regarding the article "The TIME 100" on Richard Dawkins:

The TIME 100: Richard Dawkins

Selecting Michael Behe for writing bio/blurb on Richard Dawkins is to give way more credit to Michael Behe than he's due. Behe is a clown who carries no weight at all in the scientific community.

By choosing Behe to comment on Dawkins is almost like choosing some unknown spawn of Lucifer to comment on Jesus.

Intelligent Design (that Behe is a figure-head of) has no scientific accomplishments or merits what-so-ever, and the only reason it is known at all, is all thanks to a massive PR-campaign sponsored by religious organizations.

Regards,
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 05/04/2007 :  01:15:13   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I like it Dr M., especially the spawn of Lucifer example.
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filthy
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Posted - 05/04/2007 :  02:18:42   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
"Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment."

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)
American politician and lecturer known for his adamant support of scientific and humanistic rationalism.




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

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