Michael Behe's Critics Misunderstand Irreducible Complexity and Make Darwinian Evolution Unfalsifiable

When Michael Behe published a paper in Quarterly Review of Biology (QRB) in December, 2010, the journal's editors apparently felt compelled to also publish in the same issue a companion article, titled "Irreducible Incoherence and Intelligent Design -- a look into the conceptual toolbox of a pseudoscience." The title alone gives a hint at its rhetorically charged nature.

The paper apparently serves as QRB's penance for publishing Michael Behe's paper, which had far more measured arguments...