The Edge of Evolution - Michael J. Behe - Books - Review - New York Times
The Edge of Evolution - Michael J. Behe - Books - Review - New York Times
This is an amazing book review by Richard Dawkins. To set the stage, you need to understand that Behe is a professor at Lehigh University, and one of the reasons none of my children will ever attend Lehigh. He is the chief apologist, er, scientest/poster boy for the (un)Intelligent Design/Creationist movement.
Richard Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi chair for the public understanding of science at Oxford and he is a vocal atheist who holds the Creationist movements collective hands to the fire regarding scientific method and understanding of evolutionary biology.
Dawkins takes Behe apart. He does so in a systematic and irrefutable fashion. This article should be required reading for high school science classes. He understands his material, the article is well written, the author builds his case in a logical fashion and backs it up with appropriate references. A good class exercise would be to identify all scientific references within the article. Another exercise would be to write a paragraph about each scientist referenced as well. This would take about a week of part time homeworks to accomplish and when complete, the students would know more about science and scientific method than everyone associated with the Creationist Museum.
This is an amazing book review by Richard Dawkins. To set the stage, you need to understand that Behe is a professor at Lehigh University, and one of the reasons none of my children will ever attend Lehigh. He is the chief apologist, er, scientest/poster boy for the (un)Intelligent Design/Creationist movement.
Richard Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi chair for the public understanding of science at Oxford and he is a vocal atheist who holds the Creationist movements collective hands to the fire regarding scientific method and understanding of evolutionary biology.
Dawkins takes Behe apart. He does so in a systematic and irrefutable fashion. This article should be required reading for high school science classes. He understands his material, the article is well written, the author builds his case in a logical fashion and backs it up with appropriate references. A good class exercise would be to identify all scientific references within the article. Another exercise would be to write a paragraph about each scientist referenced as well. This would take about a week of part time homeworks to accomplish and when complete, the students would know more about science and scientific method than everyone associated with the Creationist Museum.
posted by Paul at 7/03/2007 01:14:00 PM
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