Title: badly researched, argument goes nowhere
Product review: Behe's argument boils down to a complaint that he can't imagine the last evolutionary step leading up to certain complex biochemical systems. Well, that's not terribly surprising since he's a protein chemist, not an evolutionary biologist. Basically he went and wrote a book outside his own field of expertise without doing his homework. He makes a big point out of how there have been absolutely no papers published about huge areas of biochemical evolution, but he's just wrong (see, e.g., responses at http://www.world-of-dawkins.com/box/behe.htm).And even if one was ready to buy his argument that there was a problem with biochemical evolution, what he's proposing is to admit faith-based reasoning into science. What's going to happen next -- will scientific papers have to be peer-reviewed by witch doctors? Will we have to start considering whether astronomy research is consistent with astrology? Will geology papers be reviewed by flat-earthers?
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