The Bombardier Beetle & the Eye: How Darwinism Crumbles

by Asa Boxer

Michael Behe (b. 1952) professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University is famous for his book Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (1996) in which he introduced the idea of irreducible complexity as an argument for intelligent design. Above he is holding a mousetrap, the analogy he uses to get across his idea of mechanisms that are irreducibly complex and that must be designed and purposefully assembled to work.

The Curious Case of the Bombardier Beetle

A classic manoeuvre in the new atheist tool kit is to accuse opponents of lacking imagination. The gist of this sophistication is that one who presents arguments refuting atheist imaginings lacks imagination. In other words an imagination is a talent best used to colour in the lines of new atheist doctrine. Colouring outside those lines is a failure of imagination. It follows that these atheists fail to imagine an imagination that could imagine outside their sphere of reference and therefore claim that one who…