Peg writes:
if Behe can provide these sorts of examples, he's obviously done some sort of research and study to draw such a conclusion.
Behe is a tenured professor and research microbiologist at Lehigh University, though his research has tailed off considerably in the last decade.
so why is his study & research not considered science?
He's never published nor even submitted any ID research to any scientific journals. His scientific papers are all in the field of microbiology, but none on ID, and I suspect that while he's thought and written a great deal on ID, he hasn't actually done any research on it. He has written a couple popular press books,
Darwin's Black Box and more recently
The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism.
But I'd be hard pressed to describe how Behe might do ID research. Taking his example of the bacterial flagellum, after he's decided it couldn't possibly have evolved naturally, what next? Are there ways he could ferret out how the designer designed? What methods and tools he might have used to create/modify genes or build the first flagellum? Human designers conduct scores and scores of experiments and build a number of prototypes before hitting upon a final design - should Behe look for experimental predecessors to the bacterial flagellum?
I don't know the answers to these questions, and neither would most legitimate scientists, because there seems no legitimate way to conduct research when the conclusion is decided before any of the questions have been answered, or even asked.
--Percy
Edited by Percy, : Punctuation.