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De nada; share the wealth; praise the lord and pass the ammunition ... 🙂

Birgitte: "Many of the people who support creationism are quite highly educated in fact ..."

Indeed. I remember reading "Darwin's Black Box" by "Michael J. Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania" -- and a leading proponent of "intelligent design" -- probably some 20 years ago during the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s_Black_Box

I had been quite impressed by Behe's exposition of various biochemical mechanisms, though I seem to recollect that he eventually snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by concluding "therefore Jesus". But not before broaching a more plausible candidate for alternatives to Darwinian evolution -- emergence in particular -- which isn't quite the slam-dunk that many insist is the case.

Apropos of which, another "nay-sayer" or at least skeptic of Darwinism, David Berlinski who's not exactly chopped liver himself:

https://www.discovery.org/a/130/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Berlinski

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