New abiogenesis news article 4/12/02

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But I originally responded because I was skeptical that Behe rejects symbiosis, since he accepts almost all of mainstream biology, especially, as I've said a couple times now, strongly supported positions.

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Percy, how do you know this? Behe's comments seem like a regular IDist's, and I haven't found any info of his differing views from those of Philip Johnson & others, apart from Ken Miller's account of Behe admitting human evolution. Do you have some info about it?Behe is one of the major fence-sitters in EvC debates. Among the creationists, his strong theistic evolutionary stance is the closest to the evolutionists.

The website does not say much about creationism. Just a link to the Access Res.Network. Maybe we should anticipate Behe's acceptance of evolution in the near future? Michael Denton turned from creationist to evolutionist after he looked at the facts. Seems that the creationists have forgotten about him.

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What is a ‘kind’? God created a number of different types of animals with much capacity for variation within limits.4 The descendants of each of these different kinds, apart from humans, would today mostly be represented by a larger grouping than what is called a species. In most cases, those species descended from a particular original kind would be grouped today within what modern taxonomists (biologists who classify living things) call a genus (plural genera).

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Would you put humans and chimps and orangutans in the same kind? Linnaeus, a Swedish creationist, named the chimp Homo troglodytes and the orangutan Homo silvestris. (Big L did not know about bonobos and gorillas).