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    Thread: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?
Post: RE: Is Darwinism mathematically impossible?

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-05-05, 09:33 PM) -- I am going to try and give it another go but yeah I feel like there is great difficulty in trying to grasp the actual question without great expertise...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , Yesterday, 08:39 PM
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-05-05, 06:23 PM) -- So a limited model that by its nature cannot grasp the causal roots....correct? We can assign some probabilities to the relations, like they do i...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-05-03, 10:56 PM) -- I don't think this assessment of the physical is accurate, given the perpetual mystery of what matter is and - as per Feynman - the circularity in try...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-27, 04:31 PM) -- In the latter case your credible alternative natural undirected explanation has to cover all the apparently designed highly organized information with impo...
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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) -- Please rewind to the start of the video, and watch the start, where he dismissed Rene Descartes concept of Dualism. This is vital. Descartes was no fool, and...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

David001 Wrote: (2024-04-30, 05:25 PM) -- I'd rather hoped you might have reacted to this - or maybe you are trying to persuade someone from TTW to argue this topic! I'd enjoy debating with someone l...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-26, 10:36 PM) -- This term might require [its] own thread... Have to admit I'm a bit lost on what is exactly being debated. I get that one side is arguing for Co...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

David001 Wrote: (2024-04-25, 08:20 PM) -- Well, referring specifically to that word 'mind', that I bolded, Can you describe where it is situated? I mean I can only think of two possibilities, either ...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-25, 03:02 PM) -- And (along with other important  factors) it is this property ubiquitous in biology of irreducible complexity of the major subsystems of living organisms t...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

David001 Wrote: (2024-04-25, 10:52 AM) -- OK if you accept that chance is not a viable explanation for the origin of life Then it is not unreasonable to accept the obvious conclusion that a mind was ...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

Quote: -- "Life is achingly beautiful and creative once you free yourself from the mind-numbing shackles of neo-Darwinian dogma." -- Mae Wan Ho https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/peopl...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-23, 11:56 PM) -- The existence of very large amounts of meaningful, functional organisation manifesting specified complexity and associated information is what has to be ex...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

David001 Wrote: (2024-04-22, 10:59 PM) -- 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 D...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-24, 03:23 PM) -- Curious - did you mean that Information Science doesn't exert "force" as used in physics, or that these Information...objects? entities?....have no ca...
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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, 03:39 PM) -- In these ideas, design of function with life is supposed to be some sort of fundamental natural action as defined in information science, with no real acco...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

sbu Wrote: (2024-04-18, 07:39 AM) -- Yeah, psi immediately comes to mind. -- In response, what is required is a jump to the end point, where a process model of the interaction of mind and matter woul...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: RE: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

Sciborg_S_Patel Wrote: (2024-04-18, 04:51 AM) -- For me the link doesn't work, but I believe this is the article (https://scitechdaily.com/beyond-biology-scientists-uncover-a-universal-missing-law-of...
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    Thread: Trashing natural selection as a special case.
Post: Trashing natural selection as a special case.

Quote: --  Evolution of plants, animals: “A very special case within a far larger natural phenomenon.” Similar marvels occur with stars, planets, minerals, other complex systems; When a novel confi...
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-16, 05:09 PM) -- This thinking seems to be attempting to resurrect the "natural selection of naturally occurring variations" or in other words "survival of the fittest' mec...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-16, 08:50 PM
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    Thread: A new Guardian article on near-death experiences
Post: RE: A new Guardian article on near-death experienc...

nbtruthman Wrote: (2024-04-16, 04:46 PM) -- I believe this misinterprets Darwin's views. See my previous response to Brian. Darwin believed that natural variation plus natural and/or sexual selection...
Posted by stephenw in Skeptic vs. Proponent Discussions , 2024-04-16, 04:55 PM
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