Ricky I know this will surprise you that" Darwins black box"by Behe was published it was quickly refuted by biologists who pointed out he really didn't understand the subject. It is such a detailed and lengthy rebuttal that any comment I would make would not do it justice. Please read some of it and leave your conclusions.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/behe/review.html

8b While I agree with a lot of what you say below. I can't see the PUP making any inroads as a serious contender for political leadership. While the UVF remains nothing more than armed thugs indulging in all sorts of criminal activities they will never attract a mass vote from the ordinary protestant working class voter, who suffer most from their activities. If they had any political insight into what was needed, they would be protesting about the under achieving schools in protestant areas, and holding those responsible to account. From someone who values the British link it is totally unrealistic to continue to feed people the untruthful idea that demonstrations will put the clock back and the Union flag flag will again fly 365 days from the city hall, and parades which are contentious can be solved by assembling at the city hall, this is the politics of failure and they need to begin to change tack.

In 24 months, our membership has trebled, we now have over 300 members locally, we’ve appointed a Regional Management Committee and appointed David McNarry MLA as our local leader.

We’ve now got representatives in place across Northern Ireland with our newest branch in Fermanagh and South Tyrone being inaugurated just recently. Three hundred members, WOW, I was in a fishing club with more members. There must be a lot of travelling to give the impression that all these branches are thriving, bet the same faces appear at all the so called local branches.

8b...like thousands of others I listened to the[ dabate?] on Nolan this morning. I could not for the life of me detect any coherence coming from Winstone Irvine. What the facts are---a crowd is assembling at the city hall. No one knows who the organisers are, the reasons given to the parades commissions had nothing to do with the flag being removed from the city hall. If all the other stuff being thrown into the mix, alleged police brutality, alienation from the Unionist parties to properly represent the unionist working class and the Twadell protest is being highlighted, then the proper venue for this is Stormont and not the centre of Belfast which only hurts the commercial life of the city and ruins a shopping day for the ordinary families out for a bit of Xmas shopping. The people speaking and attending this are a bunch of Goons. It brings to mind the nonsense Harry Secombe sang about when he sang "I'm walking backwards to Christmas" A nonsense song but no more nonsensical than this motley crew assembling at the City hall, with no idea what they hope to achieve.

Colmoni a wee addendum- a bit off topic, but when did that ever deter anyone one on this forum.

The night sky on Earth (assuming it survives) will change dramatically as our Milky Way galaxy merges with its neighbours and distant galaxies will expand beyond our view.

The quickening expansion will eventually pull galaxies apart faster than light, causing them to drop out of view. This process eliminates reference points for measuring expansion and dilutes the distinctive products of the big bang to nothingness. Even the hiss of of background radiation will be no more. In short, it erases all the signs that a big bang ever occurred.

To our distant descendants, the universe will look like a small puddle of stars in an endless, changeless void. Colomni thank you for the above post. It is both, sobering and humbling, that this intelligent species on this planet, at this time, may be the only one capable of understanding, and
be the only one, able to look back on its evolution. The evidence will eventually disappear and if a intelligent mind evolves in the far distant future in any star system in any galaxy, they will all see the same localised part of the universe with no clues to how they got to be here. A supernatural explanation would be the only reason for their existence available to them. Roger is not important in the grand scheme of things, apart from the nonsense he spouts. It would be almost criminal scientific neglect, to regarded his views as anything other than rubbish.

Nonsense they're not millions of years old Try billions and you are correct, try reading the details in the article.

Gerry is a pretty unique personality. Glad to hear he will be back on the radio soon. Hope you are over your ill health and look forward to the new year.

Never sure in your case Roger....is this what you have been arguing against?

Scientists have discovered possibly the earliest signs of life on Earth – remains of bacteria that are almost three-and-a-half billion years old – in a remote region of north-west Australia.
Evidence of the complex microbial ecosystem was found in sedimentary rocks in the remote Pilbara region in Western Australia, an area which contains some of the world's oldest rock formations.
One of the researchers, David Wacey, from the University of Western Australia, said the newly-discovered evidence of bacteria "was possibly the oldest signs of life on Earth". With these microbial systems in the Pilbara, you can see these things in the field and under the microscope. You can see how the bacteria were interacting with the sediment they were living on." We don't see the microbe themselves but we see large scale structures that the microbes constructed before they died," he said.
"We see tufts and wrinkles and – when we look down the microscope – we see filaments tangled in sand grains. We are also seeing organic material which are the actual microbes but they are decomposed to the point that we cannot see an actual cell. You just see a mass of carbon-rich material."

One of the early signatures of life is trace organic matter. It is possible to distinguish between organic molecules that form by chemical processes and organic molecule that are synthesized by living organisms. The key is the ratio of the two isotopes of carbon; 12C and 13C. The common isotope is 12C and living organisms preferentially incorporate 12C when they synthesize carbohydrates, lipids, and other molecules of life.

The result is that organic molecules made in cells have a smaller percentage of the heavy isotope, 13C. The presence of "lighter" organic molecules is evidence of life.

never heard of him, so I don't have an opinion.

Roger still waiting for you to explain why a geologist or mineralogist, would use c-14 to determine the age of a fossilised microbe mat found on 3.5 billion year old pristine rocks in the Aussie outback. C14 is unstable and has a relative short half life and all traces of it being to disappear from the moment the organism dies, and would be fully depleted at about 50,000 years. Not much use as a clock when we are dealing in billions of years. Roger you just make things up as usual, and it gets sillier and sillier with each post.