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08/31/09

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Magic at Bloggingheads TV: Design theorist goes poof! And then ...

by Denyse O'Leary
ARN correspondent

Forget rabbits and hats: Design theorist Mike Behe disappears and then reappears on Bloggingheads.

I've just been through the weirdest book-related experience I've had since a Canadian university professor with a loaded rat trap chased me around after a talk I gave a dozen years ago, threatening to spring it on me.
Apparently, vitriol over this interview caused Behe's discussion partner John McWhorter to ask that it be removed.

He wrote primly,

"John McWhorter feels, with regret, that this interview represents neither himself, Professor Behe, nor Bloggingheads usefully, takes full responsibility for same, and has asked that it be taken down from the site. He apologizes to all who found its airing objectionable."
This is astounding. McWhorter was there, he said what he did, so how can he claim that it doesn't represent him?

A day later, the show was back up. So the Darwin thugs lost that round.

Behe writes,

Well, mobs, including internet mobs, are scary things, and it's understandable to panic when they unexpectedly show up at your door. But if you’re going to set up a website to air discussions about contentious issues of the day, you should have a whole lot more guts than displayed by Bloggingheads TV.
Better see it while you can though.

Also just up at the Post-Darwinist:

More coffee please!! Darwinism and popular culture: If this is love, please hate me instead

From the mailbox: Competition in nature is overrated

All this just happens when you add water and stir (spectacular scanning electron microscope images)

Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O'Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada's Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist's case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).

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