The steps toward evolutionary progress

Over at the [Discovery Institute's Media Complaints Division, Michael Behe seems to be a wee bit concerned](http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/02/the_evolutionary_puzzle_become.html) by the attention that a [recent _Nature_ paper](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7126/edsumm/e070125-07.html) is getting, moaning that, "It seems some scientists have discovered that one way to hype otherwise-lackluster work is to claim that it discredits ID."

OK. To start with, watching Michael Behe whine about someone else using ID to hype "otherwise-lackluster work" creates a concentration of irony so dense that four mining firms have put in bids for that post. Sorry, but I had to get that one out of my system. Now that I've more or less managed to get that minor issue out of the way, let's look at what, for lack of a better term, we will have to call the "substance" of Behe's complaints.

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