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Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: RE: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-05-07, 09:00 PM)
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In my opinion it is not necessary to fully understand the esoteric mathematical foundations of information theory as it applies to biological information a...
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Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-05-03, 11:07 PM)
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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.
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David001 Wrote: (2024-04-28, 04:24 PM)
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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.
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-27, 03:24 PM)
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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.
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-25, 08:54 PM)
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I would describe mind as an abstraction referring to information processing.
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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.
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stephenw Wrote: (2024-04-25, 07:34 PM)
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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.
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-24, 12:53 PM)
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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.
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Brian Wrote: (2024-04-23, 07:56 PM)
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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.
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-18, 07:16 PM)
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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
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-21, 05:30 PM)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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...
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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)
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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...
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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)
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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 ...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-14, 07:45 PM)
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"50 to 100 years"? I hate to be a pessimist, but I don't think the facts support that, at least judging by the lack of much progress so far of a lot of ev...
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Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
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LotusFlower Wrote: (2024-04-14, 07:54 PM)
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I agree, I don't even know if we'll have the answers in thousands of years (If humans are still alive by then) just because the tricky nature of proving s...
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Thread: The evidence for strong emergence in chemistry
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sbu Wrote: (2024-04-09, 11:18 AM)
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My point is that it's an ontological assumption that all chemical properties follow from physical properties. This assumption underlies the reductionist approach ...
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