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10/03/10

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Response to John Wise

In ENV...On Thursday, September 23, 2010, following a showing of the film Darwin's Dilemma, we presented a program of short talks in the Hughes-Trigg Theatre at Southern Methodist University (SMU). We argued that the neo-Darwinian theory of evolution has not solved these related problems:

- The origin of novel protein folds (talk by Axe)
- The origin of anatomical novelties (talk by Sternberg)
- The origin of animal body plans (talks by Nelson and Wells)

SMU biology lecturer John Wise attended the event - or so it appears, because he wrote a long "reply" to both the movie and our presentations, and cites our handout distributed at the information table. Wise did not ask any questions during the Q & A, however, or interact with any of us during our visit. Over the weekend (September 25-26), he then posted his comments at his webpage.

We put "reply" within quotation marks because Wise's page comprises such a rambling pastiche of assertions - some mutually contradictory, others irrelevant, or simply non-sequiturs - that it is difficult to sort out what he is actually arguing.

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