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Author Topic:   The Death Knell for ID?
Dr Adequate
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Message 3 of 102 (649994)
01-26-2012 10:19 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Trixie
01-26-2012 3:40 PM


Possible IDiot responses:
* "Yes, but this isn't an example of something else entirely which we also claim to be impossible, a claim refuted by different examples which, however, aren't examples of a third thing which we won't define clearly enough for you to find out whether they are or not."
* "This observation was made on organisms with such a short generation time that it was possible to make the observation. Therefore, like all such observations, it doesn't count."
* "That isn't irreducibly complex, because it evolved."
* "That isn't evolution, because it was an experiment done by a scientist in a laboratory, and is therefore an example of intelligent design. Of course, when we are talking out of the other side of our stupid faces, we claim that nothing counts as scientific knowledge unless it is the result of an experiment done by a scientist in a laboratory, because we are fucking morons."
* A resounding silence in which, in the far distance, one can here Behe's books being reprinted without emendation.

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Message 15 of 102 (650026)
01-27-2012 6:13 AM
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01-27-2012 1:23 AM


You guys are the idiots for believing that bacteria resistance or a virus infection proves how a bacteria can turn into a human being over millions of years. The evidence is so thrilling that it is enough to prove how evolution created everything.
That would basically be response #1, with the addition of an explicit lie about your opponents --- which does not, I might add, make response #1 any smarter.

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Message 45 of 102 (651507)
02-07-2012 7:14 PM
Reply to: Message 42 by amp1022
02-07-2012 12:16 PM


I did not bother to read what you posted. Why would I? That has to be one of the single most childish things I have seen on any forum anywhere. I did laugh a little, but in the same way I laugh every once in a while when my kids are watching Spongebob Squarepants. Honestly though, if you want to be taken seriously, don't ever use that ridiculous play on words again. I for one will dismiss any of your posts out of hand from here on out.
This would remove any possibility of you offering any substantive critique of my posts --- if such a possibility existed in the first place. But if you feel that you have nothing to lose, then who am I to argue?

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Message 63 of 102 (652779)
02-16-2012 3:10 AM
Reply to: Message 51 by Genomicus
02-15-2012 5:51 PM


IMHO, this really isn't in any way the "death knell" for ID in any way whatsoever. ID proponents don't claim that the occurrence of 4 mutations is extremely improbable. The real issue here is whether all four mutations only offered a selective advantage once all four mutations had occurred. If this was the case, then this would be quite a difficulty for the ID folks. But sequence analysis doesn't show in any way that each mutation was in itself non-adaptive. Which means it's not a problem at all for ID.
However, it is true that removing one part of the system destroys its function (using OmpF). Now the IDists' arguments about IC rest on the assumption that in such a case each of the parts separately is useless, and so the system cannot have been assembled a bit at a time by natural selection causing the parts to accumulate, because natural selection would not have acted on the parts.
The fact that each mutation was adaptive is just what shows that they were wrong. The evolutionist case against Behe is not that such combinations of mutations can with reasonable probability arise all at once by chance, but that the series of changes leading to the final system can be produced by a series of steps each of which is adaptive even though it does not produce the final system having the final function. This experiment shows a case of that happening.
So this part of your post seems completely ass-backwards:
The real issue here is whether all four mutations only offered a selective advantage once all four mutations had occurred. If this was the case, then this would be quite a difficulty for the ID folks.
No, that would have been a problem for the evolutionists. They would be left with no known mechanism to explain why this pathway is followed, and followed repeatedly, in reruns of the experiment, since this could not be explained by chance (too many long shots coming up) or by the cumulative effect of natural selection (which would not, by hypothesis, act).
Meanwhile Behe could have gone around saying that this was the first observed instance of his invisible designer magically tampering with genomes to produce an IC system.
The actual observation is therefore a blow against ID precisely because the system evolved by completely normal Darwinian processes, as evolutionists claim that such systems evolve.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 83 of 102 (652974)
02-17-2012 4:13 AM
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02-16-2012 4:50 AM


Many ID proponents acknowledge that the parts of an IC system can carry out other functions, which means that IC doesn't automatically mean that a given system could not have plausibly evolved.
Perhaps they could acknowledge this fact more loudly and publicly. Or ... at all? Where did they say this? Is a new edition of Darwin's Black Box going to come out consisting exclusively of the words: "I was wrong"?

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Message 99 of 102 (654501)
03-01-2012 9:09 PM
Reply to: Message 86 by idscience
03-01-2012 5:00 PM


Dover "death knell". One local judge? There is a hopefull monster for ya. Did Scopes conviction kill evolution?
Evolution is a scientific endeavor, and could only be killed by scientists; ID was a political maneuver, and since its whole purpose was to provide a cover for creationism sufficiently opaque that it could be smuggled past a judge, the fact that it failed in this purpose does seem to kinda wrap it up for ID.
And may I wish you guys the very best of luck with your next attempt to rebrand the same ol' crap.

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Message 100 of 102 (654503)
03-01-2012 9:17 PM
Reply to: Message 95 by idscience
03-01-2012 7:40 PM


Re: More assertions
What is it with you guys and your speling.
"Speling"? Are you doing this deliberately?
As to what it is with "us guys", I guess we just like being right about things. That's why we do it so often.
You should try it yourself. I don't mean, heaven forbid, that you should be right about important things, such as biology. But if you managed to acquire a superficial veneer of competence, even intelligence, then it might take people longer to figure out that you are fundamentally a bleedin' idiot.
Miss statement on Sternberg. Smythsonian tried to force him out not standing guard and censoring Meyers paper. Apauling behaviour for so called scientists.
Summary of Retaliation and Discrimination | Richard Sternberg
Page not found | Scribd
Darwin's finches:
Evolution: Library: Finch Beak Data Sheet
Now, I am not going to write a book for you. I am sure you are aware of the issues I am talking about. If not, do a little more of your "research" and get back to me.
If you're not prepared to back up any of your own nonsense, that's fine by me.

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