And these are the words that disappeared (in brackets):
Our goal is to illustrate how a complex, tightly integrated molecular system -- [one which appears to be "irreducibly complex"] -- evolved by Darwinian processes hundreds of millions of years ago.
Two days ago, I pointed out that it's a tad inconsistent to say there is no scientific controversy about ID, when one is participating in that very controversy (as Thornton and in fact a whole lot of other scientists and scholars are). Seems Thornton didn't like me calling attention to this. So goodbye to the phrase "irreducible complexity" from his University of Oregon webpage [see the last sentence of the second paragraph].
Well, you can still read the University of Oregon press release promoting Thornton's putative refutation of irreducible complexity.
But read it today. The memory hole beckons.
[A friend sent me Thornton's unedited page from Google cache. Let me say that I look forward to meeting Joe Thornton one day, find the work of his lab on "resurrecting proteins" absolutely fascinating (more on that next week), and welcome his criticism of ID reasoning (even though I think it's wrong). I just wish he hadn't tidied up his page. Why bother?]
