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The judge in the Dover trial wrote " By defining irreducible complexity in the way that he has, Professor Behe attempts to exclude the phenomenon of exaptation by definitional fiat, ignoring as he does so abundant evidence which refutes his argument.
Notably, the NAS has rejected Professor Behe ’ s claim for irreducible complexity ..."
" and that " Professor Behe wrote that he hoped to " repair this defect in future work ..." ( Page 73 )
* " By defining irreducible complexity in the way that he has, Professor Behe attempts to exclude the phenomenon of exaptation by definitional fiat, ignoring as he does so abundant evidence which refutes his argument.
Notably, the NAS has rejected Professor Behe ’ s claim for irreducible complexity ..." ( Page 75 )
Professor Behe has applied the concept of irreducible complexity to only a few select systems: ( 1 ) the bacterial flagellum ; ( 2 ) the blood-clotting cascade ; and ( 3 ) the immune system.
Contrary to Professor Behe ’ s assertions with respect to these few biochemical systems among the myriad existing in nature, however, Dr. Miller presented evidence, based upon peer-reviewed studies, that they are not in fact irreducibly complex.
* "... on cross-examination, Professor Behe was questioned concerning his 1996 claim that science would never find an evolutionary explanation for the immune system.
* " We therefore find that Professor Behe ’ s claim for irreducible complexity has been refuted in peer-reviewed research papers and has been rejected by the scientific community at large.
We will now consider the purportedly “ positive argument ” for design encompassed in the phrase used numerous times by Professors Behe and Minnich throughout their expert testimony, which is the “ purposeful arrangement of parts .” Professor Behe summarized the argument as follows: We infer design when we see parts that appear to be arranged for a purpose.
Expert testimony revealed that this inductive argument is not scientific and as admitted by Professor Behe, can never be ruled out.

Professor and admitted
in 1619, was admitted at Doctor's Commons in January 1618, and was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford in 1620.
In a statement to the HKU community, the university ’ s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lap-chee Tsui, admitted that the security arrangements could have been better planned and organized, and apologized to the university ’ s students and alumni for not having been able to prevent the unhappy incident.
Later under oath, the government ’ s chief scientific witness, Professor Yuval Goren of Tel Aviv University admitted on cross-examination that there was original ancient patina in the word “ Jesus .”
In a letter to his father, he admitted being thrown into confusion about his faith because of the liberalism taught by Professor Wilhelm Herrmann.
Mary Ann's creator Sherwood Schwartz later admitted that he didn't see Mary Ann or the Professor as prominent characters during the first few episodes and that he later corrected his mistake by giving them larger roles and opening-cast-billing.
During the same year Naudé was blamed for leaking documents about the Broederbond to the press but University of the Witwatersrand New Testament scholar Professor Albert S. Geyser later admitted that he had leaked the documents.
Once admitted into the " Conservatório de Música do Porto ", he studied musical composition under the direction of Professor Cândido Lima.
In the end, Professor Rice begrudgingly admitted to an admiration of Bulwer-Lytton.
He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1822, and was appointed Professor of Constitutional Law and History in the University of Edinburgh in 1846.
In a 1995 survey of 184 Gamblers Anonymous members in Illinois, Illinois State Professor Henry Lesieur found that 56 percent admitted to some illegal act to obtain money to gamble.
Ms Parker was admitted to East Birmingham ( now Heartlands ) Hospital on August 24 and diagnosed ( by Professor Alasdair Geddes and Dr. Thomas Henry Flewett ) as being infected with Variola major, the most lethal strain of smallpox.
He studied law under Judge Henry Horner and Professor Samuel H. Deneen and was admitted to the bar in Illinois in 1882.
He taught at VMI as Professor of Mathematics for several years, then in 1901, after being admitted to the Virginia bar, he resigned his position at the Institute to set up a law practice in Big Stone Gap.
At 17, he was the youngest to be admitted and studied under the Rector of the Academy and Professor Tadeusz Pruszkowski, Kowarski and Władysław Skoczylas.
John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago wrote in The New York Times on December 16, 1991 :" She has admitted she was not hostile to the Nazis before 1940.

Professor and Reply
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The Domain of Constitutional Delegations under the Orders, Resolutions and Votes Clause: A Reply to Professor Gary S. Lawson, Texas Law Review, Vol.
Democratic Constitutionalism: A Reply to Professor Barron, 1 HARV.

Professor and My
" In a letter to Algonquianist Truman Michelson, Bloomfield noted " My models are Pāṇini and the kind of work done in Indo-European by my teacher, Professor Wackernagel of Basle.
Concurrent with My Three Sons, MacMurray stayed busy in films, starring as Professor Ned Brainard in Disney's The Absent-Minded Professor ( 1961 ) and in the sequel, Son of Flubber, ( 1963 ).
About this time Pryce sang at The Hollywood Bowl alongside opera singer Lesley Garrett in highlights from My Fair Lady and in 1998, he performed in Cameron Mackintosh's gala concert Hey, Mr Producer !, also as Professor Henry Higgins from My Fair Lady and reprising his role as the Engineer from Miss Saigon.
While the success of some of these films was variable, the 2001 London stage production of My Fair Lady and his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins was being acclaimed by the media.
* My Fair Lady ( 2001 revival ) as Professor Higgins-Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical
In 1969, Whitmore played the leading character of Professor Woodruff in the TV series My Friend Tony, produced by NBC.
The B side of the 1985 Paul McCartney single ' Spies Like Us ', entitled ' My Carnival ', credited to Paul McCartney & Wings, was recorded in New Orleans and dedicated to Professor Longhair.
In " Out of My Mind ," it was discovered that the drugs that Professor Walsh had secretly fed him were causing Riley's pain receptors to shut down and his heartbeat to spike, and would eventually have killed him.
*" The Professor ", an episode of My Name is Earl
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Professor Leonard E. Berman of Syracuse University testified to a U. S. Senate committee in July 2010 that: " My guess is that if President Bush had announced a new war surtax to pay for Iraq or an increase in the Medicare payroll tax rate to pay for the prescription drug benefit, both initiatives would have been less popular.
In 2008 he starred in the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at Cirkus in Stockholm, and in 2009 he played Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady in Stockholm acting opposite Helen Sjöholm, who portrayed the role of Eliza Doolittle.
The Professor is one of the oldest human beings on Earth ( excluding those who have been cryogenically frozen or are kept alive as heads in jars ), a title that he acquired after the events of the episode " A Clone of My Own ", in which it was revealed that upon turning 160 ( which he claimed was his 150th birthday ), all humans are collected by the Sunset Robot Squad and sent to live out the rest of their days in isolation aboard the gigantic Near-Death Star ( a play on the Death Star ).
The Professor states and / or implies in both " A Clone of My Own " and " Anthology of Interest I " that he has a vast fortune saved up.
His best-known stage role was as Professor Higgins in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady, taking over from Rex Harrison in 1957.
He wrote the book Through My Telescope in 1935, which had an impressive foreword by Sir Richard Gregory, formerly Emeritus Professor of Astronomy at Queen's College, London.
Professor Gervacio Miranda who also wrote a book in Chabacano said in his preface the following thing ," My only objective to write this book is to possibly conserve in written form the Chavacano of Cavite for posterity ," fearing the extinction of the dialect.
Conried's inimitable growl and impeccable diction were perfectly suited to the roles he played, whether portraying the dim Professor Kopokin in the radio show My Friend Irma or portraying comic villains and other mock-sinister or cranky types, such as Captain Hook ( and Mr. Darling ) in Walt Disney's Peter Pan and The Grinch / Narrator from Dr. Seuss ' Halloween is Grinch Night.
At one point, the song " I'm My Own Grandpa " is referenced, when Professor Farnsworth says " a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-my-own-grandpa ".
My hearty congratulations to Professor V. A. Hambardzumyan, the Copernican Revolutionary ...!” ( Problems of Physics and Evolution of the Universe, Publishing House of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, 1978, pp. 243 – 250.
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My prejudice, as Professor Link says, is towards representational painting, and it's the only kind I can do, but I had to accept the fact that the major painting of our time, and the major sculpture too, after a while, was abstract, because you can't choose what to like and what not to like.

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