🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 This cracked me up! I've read every book Mike Behe has put out, along with Stephen Meyer (looking forward to his new one, coming out in a few months time) and many other authors on the Intelligent Design Team (Think Discovery Institute & Reasons To Believe with Hugh Ross & team). I've read the other side as well, including a lot of Sean M. Carroll's work. Never read anything by Sean B. Carroll though 😂
Anyway, I love you're writing style, I've read two of your books and portions of the others, plus many, many blog posts, I always have a good laugh, am prompted to think deeply, and I almost always come away with a new perspective. I'd only debate Mike Behe's latest being a grounder 😉🤺
I like his suggestion that the Biblical Kinds are Roughly Equivalent to Families. (Canidae (dogs, wolves, foxes), Felidae (cats), Mephitidae (skunks), and Ursidae (bears), ect.)
Or in some cases at the level of Genus, or something in-between the two, it's all a little unsure 🤷♂️
I think that was discussed most in-depth in his 2007 work, "Edge of Evolution", it may also be discussed in his most recent 2019 work "Darwin Devolves" I can't remember if it was mentioned or not 🤔.
In any case, the mechanisms involved have never been proven to have the power necessary to go any further than that, nor are there any indications of that ever being possible, thus providing further evidence that the Bible is strongly grounded in science when it simply states in Genesis Chapter 1:
"20 Then God said: “Let the waters swarm with living creatures, and let flying creatures fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21 And God created the great sea creatures and all living creatures that move and swarm in the waters according to their kinds and every winged flying creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 With that God blessed them, saying: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the waters of the sea, and let the flying creatures become many in the earth.” 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24 Then God said: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, domestic animals and creeping animals and wild animals of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 And God went on to make the wild animals of the earth according to their kinds and the domestic animals according to their kinds and all the creeping animals of the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good"
Also, I remember reading this post. It was a good one. 👌🏼
I've seen much of this topic summed up in an equation before:
"The Drake equation begins with a running start. What if instead of asking how many cosmic neighbors we have, we ask a much more fundamental question: If God had no role in the origin of life, what are the odds that any intelligent civilizations (including ours) would ever exist? In other words, what is the probability that intelligent life forms would arise through undirected processes? We can follow Drake's lead and use math to suggest an answer to this question. Let's call our equation the Adam Equation."
"The Adam Equation F,Adam = fU × fA × fP× fL × fC × fI where F,Adam is the probability that intelligent living beings are here by chance.
fU is the probability that the universe would have begun without God.
fA is the probability that the right laws of nature result without God.
fp is the probability of obtaining a suitable planet without God.
fL is the probability that life arises from non-living material without God.
fC is the probability that complex life develops without God.
fI is the probability that intelligent, advanced life develops without God."
"Scientists who insist on a naturalistic origin of the universe remind one of the White Queen from Wonderland. When Alice told the Queen it was not possible to believe in impossible things, the Queen answered, “I daresay you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”"
"To believe in naturalistic origins of life and the universe, one must join the White Queen and have faith in impossible things; six impossible things, in fact:
Impossibilities in Philosophy: The Origin of the Universe
Impossibilities in Physics: A Goldilocks Universe
Impossibilities in Astronomy: An Exceptional Earth
Impossibilities in Chemistry: The Origin of Life
Impossibilities in Biochemistry: The Complexity of Life
Impossibilities in Anthropology: The Image of God"
Anyways, Thanks for your work bro! With Christian Love, YB Kelton! 😎👊🏻