"We are African apes, cousins of monkeys, descended from fish"...???

Richard Dawkins, who should need no introduction, but who will get one anyway-author of the Selfish Gene, coiner of the term 'meme', and currently famous for being perhaps the most argumentative and visible atheist on Earth-reviewed the latest book by intelligent design advocate Michael Behe in Sunday's New York Times.You probably don't need me to tell you how it went. Beatings this savage don't often appear in print, but hardly anything else could be expected from a scientist who has shown an enthusiasm for verbally eviscerating his foes not seen since Thomas "Darwin's Bulldog" Huxley told Samuel Wilberforce, the Lord Bishop of Oxford,"I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth."Nor is it the least unexpected that Behe, whose views have been publicly disowned by his own university, imbued his latest book with the lazy illogic that makes intelligent design even more disingenuous, if this is possible, than pure creationism, which is at least a belief system with transparent axioms at its root....
To read more go to:
http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=we_are_african_apes_cousins_of_monkeys_d&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&sc=WR_20070710
As in the days of Noah....