The REALL News - December 1999

<body>  <table border="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td><font size="2"><a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html"><i><img alt="Get Acrobat Reader" border="0" src="/images/logos/getacrobat.gif" align="right" width="88" height="31"></i></a><a href="reall-news-v07-n12.pdf" target="_top">Also available as an Acrobat PDF file</a> (8 pages, 600K file)<br> <i>You can download this issue as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. You will need the free <a href="http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html">Acrobat Reader software</a>, available from <a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe's web site</a>, to view it.</i></font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"><font size="2"><i>(<a href="index.html">Toggle Frames</a>)</i></font></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>Volume 7<br> Number 12</b></td> <td> <h1 align="center">The REALL News</h1> <i> <p align="center">"It's a very dangerous thing to believe in nonsense."<br> -- James Randi<br> <br> </i></td> <td align="right" valign="top"><b>December 1999</b></td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"> <center> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <th align="left">Features</th> <th align="left">Departments</th> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <ul> <li><a href="black-box.html">A Central Illinois Scientist Responds to the Black Box</a>, by Karen Bartelt</li> <li><a href="conspiracy-museum.html">A Visit to the Conspiracy Museum</a>, by David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="reallity-check.html">REALLity Check</a>, by David Bloomberg </li> </ul> </td> <td valign="top" width="50%"> <ul> <li><a href="chairman.html">From the Chairman</a> - David Bloomberg</li> <li><a href="editor.html">From the Editor</a> - Wally Hartshorn</li> <li><a href="masthead.html">Masthead</a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </div> <div align="center"> <table border="0" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <h2 class="articlehead"><br> A Central Illinois Scientist Responds to the Black Box</h2> <p class="byline">by Karen Bartelt</p> <p><img src="scientist.gif" width="215" height="177" align="right" alt="*">Dr. Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, appeared recently (October 5-6) at Lincoln Christian Seminary in Lincoln, IL. Briefly, Darwin's Black Box proposes that certain cellular structures are "irreducibly complex" - that all parts must be functional for the structure to work, and Behe asserts that gradual Darwinian evolution does a poor job of explaining these features, therefore, there must be an "intelligent designer." <p> Prior to his appearance, Behe was the subject of a large article by the Michael Miller, religion editor of the Peoria Journal Star. Piqued by what Behe might have to say to a receptive-but-nonscientific audience, I attended two of the three lectures. What follows are my responses - as a scientist - to Behe's lectures at the seminary and his October 3 interview in the Peoria Journal Star.<a href="black-box.html"><img alt="More" border="0" hspace="2" src="/images/anthony/hpoint_right.gif" width="33" height="14">More</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>