Steve_F

Apologies in advance if this has been discussed before. Its a book by a chap called David Swift (an expert on water resources apparently) arguing against "the current widely-accepted evolutionary explanation for the complexity of biology at the molecular level."

It looks like a new one to me, the work by Behe etc has already been nicely debunked (as far as I know) but has this one been looked at critically?


Load of crap?

Shpongle

Sounds like a rehash of Behe and other ID arguments (although the description of the contents is too vague to see if he brings up anything original).

But why is someone with a degree in "water resources technology" trying to argue against evolutionary biology? Heck, at least Behe was a biochemist.

edited to add: I found another description of the book here, that mentions, "The interactions of complex bio-molecules further refute evolution theory, since with multi-component machines, nothing works unless everything works". It sounds like a rehash of irreducible complexity to me.

Albion

Steve, is there any information about the author and what he does? The blurb from the publisher just says that he "lectures on a range of environmental concerns." Assertions about problems with the theory of evolution at the molecular level don't really seem to fit in there all that well. I wonder which particular natural science his degree in natural sciences was awarded for.