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Posted: April 07 2006,12:23

2. MISSING GENES: FINDING THE KEY THAT OPENS DARWIN'S BLACK BOX.
It was a lousy day for intelligent design, which has had a lot of
bad days lately. Even as a missing link showed up on the pages
of Nature, a report in Science from the University of Oregon
showed how a new hormone-receptor pair evolved. An existing
molecule, created for a different role, was recruited to do the
new job. The lead author, Joseph Thornton, believes this may be
common in the evolution of complex systems. Hormone-receptor
pairs would seem to be an example of what intelligent-design guru
Michael Behe calls "irreducible complexity" (ID). One without
the other would be useless. However, Behe scoffed to the NY
Times that Hormone-receptor pairs aren't really ID. Either he's
still a little cranky from the Dover trial, or he just prefers
miracles http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN05/wn102105.html .

jeannot

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Posted: April 07 2006,12:40

Thanks for the story Steve.

What's new on ID?

Well, I'll take this opportunity to tell you about a French creationist anthropologist named Anne d'Ambricourt who believed in prescribed evolution (do you know her, JAD?�

). Yes, we have our own Davison.

Needless to say that her theory concerning the prescribed evolution of Homo is not even considered by her colleagues. However she managed to have a documentary shown at prime time on a French-German channel, that was apparently pushed here by some chistian fundation.

Unfortunately, I can't provide you any links in English.

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