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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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I want to explain just how much intelligence would be needed for an organism to decide it would do better with a roratory flagellum and to plan the necessary changes to the organism to manage this fea...
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    Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
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Laird Wrote: (2024-05-09, 12:49 AM) -- Go to your profile (e.g., click on your name where in the header it says "Welcome back, David001") and then click on "Find all posts" beside "Total Posts:". -- ...
Posted by David001 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-05-09, 03:41 PM
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    Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: RE: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?

sbu Wrote: (2024-05-08, 02:16 PM) -- The biggest mistake one can make is to only read sources one agrees with beforehand and then think that covers everything. If one hasn't seen both sides of the co...
Posted by David001 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-05-08, 08:17 PM
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    Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: RE: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-05-07, 09:00 PM) -- In my opinion it is not necessary to fully understand the esoteric mathematical foundations of information theory as it applies to biological information a...
Posted by David001 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-05-08, 01:37 PM
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-05-03, 11:07 PM) -- I would interpret these words as meaning that first, living things perform intelligent information processing. This is obvious for certain living things, n...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

David001 Wrote: (2024-04-28, 04:24 PM) -- I know you are a fan of The Third Way, so this is for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCLRKP9NW8I&t=405s Please rewind to the start of the video, ...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-27, 03:24 PM) -- I am trying to make my peace with the ideas of Bill Dembski.  My stance is that living things preform information processing that exhibits intelligence.  I m...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-25, 08:54 PM) -- I would describe mind as an abstraction referring to information processing.  -- The trouble with that, is that you can either define information as Shannon ...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-25, 07:34 PM) -- This is a thread pointing to actual prominent thinkers and researchers explaining in detail how RM + NS don't work.  I don't get how you come back with a neg...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-24, 12:53 PM) -- You know that I completely disagree with the notion of 'proof' when using this argument. A proof is a logical argument that demonstrates that a proposition is tru...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

Brian Wrote: (2024-04-23, 07:56 PM) -- Anybody who disagrees with you is waffling?  You speculate on "discarnate entities," something that nobody has any proof of and then you claim that everybody wh...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

I'd like to expand a little about the idea of Complex Specified Information (CSI). Typically we think of CSI as the information contained in protein-coding DNA. However try not to think of that as a l...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-18, 07:16 PM) -- As for Complex Specified Information (CSI) according to Dembski, I basically agree with his definition, it being "...an "explanatory filter": one can recog...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
Post: RE: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-21, 05:30 PM) -- For me, the improbability of RM+NS producing complex systems like human biology doesn't necessarily imply direct evidence for discarnate entities. A plausible nat...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-18, 09:48 PM) -- I believe I can succinctly summarize your message as follows: 'Since human DNA couldn’t have evolved by chance, there must be a greater meaning.' It’s a compellin...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-18, 08:04 PM) -- Good summary description. I would just add that this is just the protein coding portion of DNA. There is still all the non-coding DNA, which has progressiv...
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    Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-16, 06:48 AM) -- No, biochemistry and biology are too far removed from my field. However, I do support science seriously contemplating the existence of irreducible phenomena, as t...
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-17, 08:40 PM) -- I don't think that the notion of a special form of "strong emergence", of consciousness somehow naturally arising from the physical activities of brain neu...
Posted by David001 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-17, 09:18 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-09, 06:30 AM) -- Yes I understand all this is disturbing for the gospel of the NDE followers, hence this baseless denial of even the possibility of strong emergence (divine insigh...
Posted by David001 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-17, 04:32 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-15, 02:07 PM) -- Whereafter you link to a video emphasizing the issues with the 'file drawer' effect, I think you are showing double standards. What about GLP-1 agonists—are they ...
Posted by David001 in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-15, 03:08 PM
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