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Originally posted by squiz
Wow Barcs. That is some bag of excuses you have their. Don't give me your citation bluffs.Want to be specific ? I am sure you don't know what you are talking about to be honest. It also has nothing to do with my claim for positive evidence.
But for now.
My claim is that mind is required in producing a semiotic system.
Your claim is that it isn't. I'm sure you don't know what I am talking about though.
We know mind can do it. This is my claim, it is not appealing to the unknown.
Your claim that it isn't, is appealing to the unknown.
This claim is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence as the skeptoids say.
It is also not an argument from complexity either, as I will show in time, if we want to.
I submit that my claim will never be falsified.
And your claim will never be substantiated.
That is all I will have to say to you at this point. I would very much like to talk about some rigorous testing though, you set the precedent. I'm saying let us look at the actual science behind your version of evolution. It will of course stray away from the cosmological argument. Do we want to do that?
You have only give your opinions and cliché mantra like excuses deflections and evasions. Sorry for being harsh. But really, Just pulling out god of the gaps, argument from ignorance, argument from complexity etc.. which are all patently false, mixed in with a lot of denial is not a discussion. At least one I don't want to have and why I don't post here very much.
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by Barcs
The Cambrian explosion was a 20 million + year process.
Cosmologically, it's the blink of an eye.
Why would they call it an explosion if it was relatively slow?edit on 31-5-2013 by butcherguy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Barcs
Please explain how horizontal gene transfer goes against common descent.
Please explain how endosymbiosis goes against common descent.
They arise blindly? What does that even mean? Making generalizations about evolution is not helping your case.
And I'm sure you've got the evidence to back this one up. You are delving back into hypothesis.
Do you understand what a straw man is? How does any of that go against common ancestry?
explaining how it goes against common descent or shows ID.
Originally posted by ImaFungi
reply to post by Barcs
If a human intelligence was to design a universe I wonder if it could/would be more fundamentally intelligently designed then our universe is.
Many of the most recognized writers on the singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence, and argue that it is difficult or impossible for present-day humans to predict what a post-singularity would be like, due to the difficulty of imagining the intentions and capabilities of superintelligent entities.[5][6][9] The term "technological singularity" was originally coined by Vinge, who made an analogy between the breakdown in our ability to predict what would happen after the development of superintelligence and the breakdown of the predictive ability of modern physics at the space-time singularity beyond the event horizon of a black hole.[9]
Originally posted by Barcs
You are quite proficient at twisting words around, I have to admit. We also know wind can create patterns in nature that appear as if they came from a mind. But they clearly did not. Your claim is a direct appeal to the unknown. Read it again, it doesn't work without the word "KNOWN". You are basing that claim on a very limited sample size, as I mentioned. A claim like that about intelligence would require a much larger knowledge of the universe. It's an old argument, and I've debunked it before.
Your claim will be falsified as soon as scientists learn the origin of DNA. Until they do, you are just guessing and appealing to the unknown. My claim is that we do not know, therefor it is a fact based on our knowledge of science at this point in time.
I'd be down for that. Lets look at the actual science instead of making hasty conclusions about it.
My bad. I thought you were actually going to present objective evidence of ID. If that was not your intention, then my response was not appropriate, as I was responding and pointing out logical fallacies that go against the notion of objective evidence in favor of ID.
Originally posted by Barcs
reply to post by squiz
I'm asking you to explain your side in detail and you are responding with generalizations and one liners. I await your objective evidence. I'm not going to go back and forth and bicker about details that you yourself refuse to explain. I'm not treating you like a creationist. I'm treating you like somebody who is speculating about intelligent design, which is appropriate considering you haven't posted anything objective yet.
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The topic is "Intelligent first cause: why it must exist"
I still would like to know why it MUST exist without the speculation, the appeals and the fallacies.
Originally posted by squiz
BTW. All we have is speculation up to and including the first cell.
Blind evolution breaks down at the fundamental level of the protein. The combinatorial explosion is an unimaginable large number requiring more time and larger populations than have ever existed to produce even one single modest protein. This has been put to the test. And has been a serious concern for decades that has become very real.
The whole thing collapses here.
The other thing is singleton proteins, they have no known homology they sit in a family by themselves and are present in pretty much every species. The Cambrian would have required millions of new proteins.
Watch Meyers video, no reasonable person can deny the validity. The man is quite brilliant.
Till tomorrow.
Originally posted by dragonridr
Funny you mentioned this i was reading about computer simulations a while back about this. they were explaining in the 90s they used mathematics to explain protein evolution but the problem became the error values were just enormously high as we see above.With computer simulations this solved this problem because it shows the process not mathematical statistics. mathematical models of population genetics have largely failed to help us understand the distribution of gene frequencies in nature, because those models often make assumptions that are either incorrect or untestable.
So whoever this guy is he needs to get with his colleagues hes stuck in the 90s
I know of many processes that people talk about as though they can do the job of inventing new proteins (and of many papers that have resulted from such talk), but when these ideas are pushed to the point of demonstration, they all seem to retreat into the realm of the theoretical. Having followed this debate for some time now, and having made several experimental contributions to it, Ann and I have become convinced that none of the current naturalistic ideas about the origin of protein folds or the functional diversification of existing folds actually works in any general sense.
But of course, as experimentalists we are very willing to see the evidence that might prove us wrong.
Originally posted by squiz
More problems discovered empirically. As in rigourous testing.
Wide spread epistasis has been found, the more beneficial mutations the more they work against each other resulting in overwhelming negative returns.
A Serious Problem for Darwinists: Epistasis Decreases Chances of Beneficial Mutations - Evolution News & Views
New Research on Epistatic Interactions Shows "Overwhelmingly Negative" Fitness Costs and Limits to Evolution - Evolution News & Views
Even Darwinian population genetics shows unacceptable amounts of time for for just two mutations to work in combination. As mentioned in one of the clips.
Waiting for Two Mutations: With Applications to Regulatory Sequence Evolution and the Limits of Darwinian Evolution
Excuses and denial in 3...2....1....edit on 1-6-2013 by squiz because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by dragonridr
Ok im not sure if your intentionally misleading people or you just dont understand yourself. Abiogenesis Is not a random process by any means. Its set up to all ways have the strongest survive with this you skip several bad combinations.
The other thing thats misleading is Your assuming probability of sequential trials, rather than simultaneous trials. Nature doesn't work that way it can try millions of combinations at the same time no one said it has to wait for the last one to finnish.
Think in prebiotic earth we have a billion peptides growing simultaneously, that reduces the time taken to generate our replicator significantly.And look at the laboratory they had to use the earths oceans thats a huge amount of space for all those experiments.
Now theres another catch you apear to be unaware the formation of biological polymers from monomers is a function of the laws of chemistry and biochemistry, and these are decidedly not random.So wait a minute you mean just chemistry alone limits the number of possibilities funny how you neglected to mention that.
Now in Abiogenesis the molecules were probably not more than 30-40 subunits long. These simple molecules then slowly evolved into more cooperative self-replicating systems, then finally into simple organisms.So wait where not trying to design a living organism at first we set the stage to do so. Small hurdles are easier your being misleading but trying to say its statistically impossible to go from here to here true without steps in between.
Your biologist is a creationist nut job go look it up online hes not a genius hes just hawking books to people who want to believe god created the universe gave up on the bible story and now trying to create a new creationist theory.