Response to Carl Zimmer and Joseph Thornton, Part 2

The science writer Carl Zimmer posted an invited reply http://tinyurl.com/yhpm3t7 on his blog from Joseph Thornton of the University of Oregon to my recent comments about Thornton's work. This is the second of several posts addressing it. References will appear in the last post.

Now to Professor Thornton's reply. He writes at length but makes just two substantive points: 1) that neutral mutations occur and can serendipitously help a protein evolve some function ("[Behe:] ignores the key role...