No gradual biochemical evolution models have been published (Talk.Origins)

Claim CA350:

Professional literature is silent on the subject of the evolution of biochemical systems.

Source: Behe, Michael J. 1996. Darwin's Black Box, New York: The Free Press, 68, 72, 97, 114, 115-116, 138, 185-186.

CreationWiki response:

No place does Behe make such a claim. He said that he had a hard time finding any and that those he did find were only speculative with no supporting experiments.

Behe did not claim that the literature is missing, but that it was hard to find any and that those he did find were only speculative with no supporting experiments.

It is Talk Origins that is doing the overstating; Behe was simply showing how much progress has been made sense the 1950’s. That which has been learned since only helps support Behe’s work, by showing that cells are even more complicated than previously thought.

First of all it needs to be noted that by “scientific literature” Talk Origins means journals that are dedicated to evolution. They would exclude by definition any creationist scientific journal or one published by intelligent design proponents.

What Talk Origins does not tell its readers is that those journals they refer to as “scientific literature” will not publish any articles on intelligent design theory. It’s rather hard to publish a paper when scientific publications refuse to even consider it.

Finally, a paper on intelligent design theory was published in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington and the Evolutionary establishment had a fit. The reaction included the expulsion of its then editor Richard Sternberg from the Smithsonian.
 * Reference: The Smithsonian/Sternberg controversy