Design Comedy

Well, if your numeracy skills are up to understanding "esoteric" concepts like "orders of magnitude," you'll appreciate the absurdity. Read what Michael Behe was forced to admit under oath about a biological system he claimed was "irreducibly complex." Here's the summary:

And remember, the core of Behe's entire argument for ID is that irreducibly complex systems cannot evolve. Yet what does he admit under oath that his own study actually says? It says that IF you assume a population of bacteria on the entire earth that is 7 orders of magnitude less than the number of bacteria in a single ton of soil...and IF you assume that it undergoes only point mutations...and IF you rule out recombination, transposition, insertion/deletion, frame shift mutations and all of the other documented sources of mutation and genetic variation...and IF you assume that none of the intermediate steps would serve any function that might help them be preserved...THEN it would take 20,000 years (or 1/195,000th of the time bacteria have been on the earth) for a new complex trait requiring multiple interacting mutations - the very definition of an irreducibly complex system according to Behe - to develop and be fixed in a population.

It does make me wonder how much longer an intelligent guy like Behe can continue maintaining the cognitive dissonance. When will he (or when did he) realise how wrong he was?