Fellow ScienceBlogs author Afarensis has posted a series of old posts about ID and human evolution, apparently prompted by my post a couple days about Bombadill's silly claims on that subject. I thought I'd link to all of them so you can see someone with some real expertise in the area take out such arguments.
He also just reposted an excellent takedown of Jonathan Wells' claims about centrioles in the cell, which he bizarrely thinks is evidence for intelligent design.
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We left off with Woodward about to launch into his favorite talking points. Let's have a look.
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Oy, but it is depressing.
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Yes, it was inspired by your post. I tried to send a trackback to UD to give them a chance to respond but it didn't work for some reason.