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Article: The day without yesterday: is intelligent design really like big bang theory?(Eric Rothschild)(Interview)

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MICHAEL BEHE, AUTHOR OF ONE OF THE leading Intelligent Design (ID) books, Darwin's Black Box, appeared as an expert witness for the Dover, PA School Board in the case, Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District. Behe offered no specific test or experiment to positively validate or invalidate Intelligent Design. Instead, according to the New York Times, Behe equated ID with the Big Bang theory: 

 
   Under sharp cross-examination by a lawyer for parents who 
   have sued the school district, he said he was untroubled by 
   the broadness of his definition of science and likened intelligent 
   design to the Big Bang theory of the origins of the universe 
   because ...

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