david ford <dfo...@gl.umbc.edu> wrote in message <news:Pine.LNX.4.44L.01.0310070016110.13014-100000@linux2.gl.umbc.edu>...
> Woodward, Thomas.  2003.  _Doubts about Darwin: A History of
> Intelligent Design_ (Grand Rapids, Michigan: BakerBooks), 303pp.
> On 157:

> Behe's motivations were therefore complex.  They were deeply
> rooted at the level of a strong moral indignation-- a simmering,
> settled outrage-- about the pervasive deception and
> misinformation he saw in all of the textbooks' discussions of
> macroevolution.  Behe had come to view as highly deceptive those
> books and media programming that seek to win over the public, and
> especially high school and college students, to belief in
> Darwinian evolution as fact.  This sense of profound contempt is
> critical to the subtle underlying passion-- the key to the
> rhetorical pathos-- of Behe's writing and speaking, which will be
> discussed below.

> As stated earlier, these feelings can be traced back to the
> dramatic change in his biological viewpoint as a professor at
> Lehigh in 1987.  Previous to his biological conversion, Behe had
> an attitude of relaxed acceptance of Darwinian explanations of
> the origin of biological complexity.  His Darwinian point of view
> was absorbed in high school biology and further reinforced
> through undergraduate studies and graduate studies of
> biochemistry.  In his mind there was no conflict with his
> religious views as a Catholic.  God simply had created slowly and
> gradually using the Darwinian mechanisms that he had authored.

> One day in 1987 [Michael] Denton's book [_Evolution: A Theory in
> Crisis_ (1985)] came to Behe's attention through a book club
> advertisement.