Behe Bit It (Michael Behe on "The Colbert Report")

I'm tempted to say that if Behe had never showed his creo leanings, we would never have heard of him.However, I know what you mean. I don't know of an incident of him actually saying "goddunnit", but here's an example of the usual party line when questioned, from an interview in the U.K. Guardian when he was over here (proselytizing!).

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JS: It's no secret that you are a Catholic. But, as I understand it, your scientific theory does not predicate God in any form whatsoever. You've suggested that the designer could even be some kind of evil alien. Is that right?

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MB: That's exactly correct. All that the evidence from biochemistry points to is some very intelligent agent. Although I find it congenial to think that it's God, others might prefer to think it's an alien - or who knows? An angel, or some satanic force, some new age power. Something we don't know anything about yet.

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JS: But you're not reinserting God into the mix?

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MB: No, we focus simply on the observation of design. We don't say the designer is God.

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Not all the Discovery Institute scientists are so cautious. I remember watching a geologist (name of Meyer, I think) about a year ago in a T.V. debate saying that he thought the designer was the Christian God in a very definite way, as if trying to appeal to Christians in the audience. No one had asked him who the designer was.I remember thinking at the time that perhaps they had pretty much given up on getting past your church/state laws and getting I.D. into the public schools, because the video wouldn't have looked good in any future trials.