tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post1367823599645149535..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: ENCODE/Junk DNA Fiasco: John Timmer Gets It Right!Larry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-89646605920498883172012-09-15T21:52:31.492-04:002012-09-15T21:52:31.492-04:00While it probably would have been better if Timmer...While it probably would have been better if Timmer had used "functional" instead of "noticeable", they aren't necessarily different animals. A function should be noticeable, especially if the function affects or changes the organism. The whole truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07219999357041824471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-44122228056084779632012-09-15T21:44:21.799-04:002012-09-15T21:44:21.799-04:00TTC said:
"Science can only describe what...TTC said:<br /><br />"Science can only describe what's there or what would happen if you did something to what's there. It can't tell you where what's there came from, ultimately. It can't tell you how life actually arose on Earth, it can't tell you how the universe came into being. Physical evidence of sufficient detail isn't available, reliable measurements can't be made to address that absent evidence. It can't tell you if the universe is designed or the result of mere chance. It can only tell you what it can, though scientists, and self-appointed champions of science, who are really just ideologues, can pretend it can.<br /><br />Discerning the mind of God is not within the abilities of science. <br /><br />Science is an entirely human invention and activity."<br /><br />Who or what is this "God" thing that you asserted? Do you have a method that is better than science for determining that this "God" thing exists and has a mind? Can you discern "the mind of God"? If so, how, and if not then how do you know that "discerning the mind of God is not within the abilities of science"? <br /><br />What if there are non-human beings on other plants that invented and do science in their neck of the universe? If they exist, and do science, do you know that they are not able to tell where things came from ultimately, or how life arose on their planet or other planets (or even throughout the universe), or how the universe came into being, or whether the universe was designed or the result of mere chance? And where does it say that humans have exhausted all avenues of scientific discovery? Just because humans don't know all the answers to all the questions right now doesn't mean that humans never will know any or all of them. <br /><br />Will you elaborate on exactly what you mean by "mere chance"? Are design by the "God" thing or "mere chance" the only two choices?<br /><br />TTC also said: "I'm really coming to believe that materialists are uniformly shallow thinkers who can't see past their own noses."<br /><br />You're the one putting arbitrary limits on science's abilities to "tell". <br /><br />"Most of reality eludes the abilities of science."<br /><br />Such as? On what basis do you say "most"? And what makes you think that most of reality will always elude science (science's "abilities")? Define "reality" and name some things in what you call "reality" that are outside the "abilities" of science. <br /><br />The whole truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07219999357041824471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-47388828188497348472012-09-13T17:36:44.803-04:002012-09-13T17:36:44.803-04:00Diogenes, I basically agree with what you write. M...Diogenes, I basically agree with what you write. My analogy was presented as just that, and analogies only go as far as they do. Certainly, even in the fanciful case of the people in the Seurat painting, I would never say the people should decide to follow the one with the intuition, whether by making him a guru or a king.<br />I just think it's important, and I imagine you agree, for everyone, whether scientist or poet, to recognize that this universe is hardly finished revealing itself to us humans. There is still so much we don't understand. There will always be some people who glimpse aspects of these things that are unknown, so I think it is worthwhile to be tolerant of them.<br />They are often wrong, to be sure. The man in the painting could have also 'intuited' that the points of color were the footprints of little dancing elves and fairies.andyboergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159573123843322700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-78239553704849451702012-09-13T13:03:52.021-04:002012-09-13T13:03:52.021-04:00"All of us"?
Um, no."All of us"?<br /><br />Um, no.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-27367869292809629892012-09-13T11:54:14.513-04:002012-09-13T11:54:14.513-04:00I also like this:
The study of the visible unive...I also like this:<br /><br /><i> <b>The study of the visible universe may be said to start with the determination to use our eyes. At the very beginning there is something which might be described as an act of faith – a belief that what our eyes have to show us is significant. I think it can be maintained that it is by an analogous determination that the mystic recognises another faculty of consciousness, and accepts as significant the vista of a world outside space and time that it reveals. But if they start alike, the two outlets from consciousness are followed up by very different methods; and here we meet with a scientific criticism which seems to have considerable justification. It would be wrong to condemn alleged knowledge of the unseen world because it is unable to follow the lines of deduction laid down by science as appropriate to the seen world; but inevitably the two kinds of knowledge are compared, and I think the challenge to a comparison does not come wholly from the scientists. Reduced to precise terms, shorn of worlds that sound inspiring but mean nothing definite, is our scheme of knowledge of what lies in the unseen world, and of its mode of contact with us, at all to be compared with our knowledge (imperfect as it is) of the physical world and its interaction with us? Can we be surprised that the student of physical science ranks it rather with the vague unchecked conjectures in his own subject, on which he feels it his duty to frown? It may be that, in admitting that the comparison is unfavourable, I am doing an injustice to the progress made by systematic theologians and philosophers; but at any rate their defence had better be in other hands than mine.<br /><br />Although I am rather in sympathy with this criticism of theology, I am not ready to press it to an extreme. In this lecture I have for the most part identified science with the physical science. This is not solely because it is the only side for which I can properly speak. But because it is generally agreed that physical science comes nearest to that complete system of exact knowledge which all sciences have before them as an ideal. Some fall far short of it. The physicist who inveighs against the lack of coherence and the indefiniteness of theological theories, will probably speak not much less harshly of the theories of biology and psychology. They also fail to come up to his standard of methodology. On the other side of him stands an even superior being – the pure mathematician – who has no high opinion of the methods of deduction used in physics, and does not hide his disapproval of the laxity of what is accepted as proof in physical science. And yet somehow knowledge grows in all of these branches. Wherever a way opens we are impelled to seek by the only methods that can be devised for that particular opening, not over-rating the security of our finding, but conscious that in this activity of mind we are obeying the light that is in our nature. </b></i> <br /><br />http://anthonymic.blogspot.com/2009/07/science-and-unseen-world.htmlThe Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-79612621065384705322012-09-13T11:49:09.427-04:002012-09-13T11:49:09.427-04:00This is a picture of scientific activity that woul...<i>This is a picture of scientific activity that would be unrecognizable to scientists, but might ring true to someone who him- or herself never bothers to find out what "verification in evidence" lies behind the theories. </i><br /><br />You seem to have missed this:<br /><br /><i> <b> We seem to be at a critical point in the history of science, in which we must alter our conception of goals and of what makes a physical theory acceptable. It appears that the fundamental numbers, and even the form, of the apparent laws of nature are not demanded by logic or physical principle. The parameters are free to take on many values and the laws to take on any form that leads to a self-consistent mathematical theory, and they do take on different values and different forms in different universes. </b> </i> <br /><br />Hawking-Mlodinow<br /><br />Show me where they had their membership cards as scientists in good standing revoked. <br /><br />There is zero, absolutely not a single shred of evidence of what the original life form on Earth was like so anything that is said about that is not based in evidence. Unlike the massive evidence of evolution that compels acceptance by a non-Darwinist, such as me, there is absolutely none to support any position about the origin of life. Though I, actually, agree with some of the assumptions about that which Darwin accepted. I believe that there was one, original organism from which all known terrestrial life is descended and that its descendants changed over time to produce the diversity of life. But that's a belief derived from science, it isn't science. <br /><br />I read enough of the posts about "junk DNA" to ask the question of how anyone knows that the "junk" doesn't have a function that will be discovered someday. It is a stupid, ideological struggle, not a scientific debate. <br /><br />Science is based on human observation, human mathematics and human logic all based in human experience. All three of those have known limits just as human beings have limits. The limits of mathematics and logic have attained the status of being mathematically and logically proven. Science cannot escape the limits of its methods. It cannot, for example, escape from its reliance on mathematics and logic to assert the existence of another universe that has "different" mathematics and logic, telling us what that could possibly mean through our mathematics and logic. It cannot say whether or not the physical basis it is made to study is as it is and operates as it does by divine intention. It can't stand outside of its physical limits to address that question. Assertions made to that effect can't be "known" in the way that a chemical reaction of known character can be known, it can only be disbelieved or believed or an agnostic position can be taken. Science isn't able to produce more than support for agnosticism on that point. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-40285236956674041982012-09-13T11:15:22.519-04:002012-09-13T11:15:22.519-04:00@Andyboerger:
He intuits that there must have bee...@Andyboerger:<br /><br /><i>He intuits that there must have been some planning involved in how they happened to come about, so well defined and well organized. Okay, how? - the others ask him. 'I don't know, but I just feel that...</i><br /><br />My problem with this is that it elevates intuition to the level of reason.<br /><br />People intuit all kinds of things. "I just know the Jews were behind 9/11." "I just know Obama is not a citizen."<br /><br />People throughout history have intuited all kinds of dumb things that lead to huge crimes or mass murder.<br /><br />If you want national policy based on fact-claims, you better have evidence to back up your fact-claims.Diogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551943619872944637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-37169617594427062612012-09-13T11:09:53.899-04:002012-09-13T11:09:53.899-04:00Though, these days, the theoretical pondering of t...<i>Though, these days, the theoretical pondering of that seems to want to have an assumed validity on its own, without verification in evidence, I think that's a really stupid idea.</i><br /><br /><i>Science can only describe what's there or what would happen if you did something to what's there. It can't tell you where what's there came from, ultimately. It can't tell you how life actually arose on Earth, it can't tell you how the universe came into being. Physical evidence of sufficient detail isn't available....</i><br /><br />This is a picture of scientific activity that would be unrecognizable to scientists, but might ring true to someone who him- or herself never bothers to find out what "verification in evidence" lies behind the theories. <br /><br />I note that you still haven't bothered even to read the relevant posts in this very blog on the subject of "junk DNA." So you seem to be exactly the sort of person who never bothers to learn what evidentiary verification there is, then complains of the lack of it. I can certainly see where many scientific issues would seem incapable of solution to you.<br /><br />Meanwhile, those of us who aren't so lazy will have the enjoyment of learning about the fascinating evidence and solutions that pass you by.Judnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-85346928735675938292012-09-13T08:59:43.081-04:002012-09-13T08:59:43.081-04:00I don't know why I should put a lot of effort ...I don't know why I should put a lot of effort into this when you can't see the problems with your thermos bottle analogy. So I'll knock off an answer. <br /><br />Science as an activity consists of observing THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, of quantifying what it observes, of analyzing the results of that observation and measurement to come up with a description of the PHYSICAL phenomena that can be logically arrived at from those. It then publishes that analysis so others can look at the account for flaws and for possible replication to see if the same results are arrived at. Though, these days, the theoretical pondering of that seems to want to have an assumed validity on its own, without verification in evidence, I think that's a really stupid idea.<br /><br />Science can only describe what's there or what would happen if you did something to what's there. It can't tell you where what's there came from, ultimately. It can't tell you how life actually arose on Earth, it can't tell you how the universe came into being. Physical evidence of sufficient detail isn't available, reliable measurements can't be made to address that absent evidence. It can't tell you if the universe is designed or the result of mere chance. It can only tell you what it can, though scientists, and self-appointed champions of science, who are really just ideologues, can pretend it can.<br /><br />Discerning the mind of God is not within the abilities of science. <br /><br />Science is an entirely human invention and activity. It is based in logic and mathematics which can't account for their absolute foundations in the terms of those human activities. Science, dealing with far more complex phenomena than numbers is even less able to establish that absolute foundation. As one mathematician pointed out the year before last, some theoretical physicists seem to just want to throw up their hands and pretend that they've achieved that without having done so. <br /><br />I'm convinced that evolutionary science being hijacked by ideological atheists in the 19th century who claim ownership of it in their emotional rants about religion have done a lot of damage to the science, which suffers whenever someone wants to insert non-scientific content into it. I think the ideology of materialism is responsible for a lot of the trouble science has gotten into. And it was entirely unnecessary. Of course, the conceit and arrogance of scientists making over-sized claims about their abilities had more than a little to do with it. <br /><br />I'm really coming to believe that materialists are uniformly shallow thinkers who can't see past their own noses. I didn't think that before I was exposed to their thinking, by the thousands, online. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-26526726921161920362012-09-13T08:35:23.623-04:002012-09-13T08:35:23.623-04:00Jud, if you think your mind is like a thermos bott...<i>Jud, if you think your mind is like a thermos bottle</i> yada, yada, yada....<br /><br />Nice way to miss the point and avoid the question. So I'll try asking one more time, and then, since as I said I'm in this to learn, give up on the likelihood of discussions with you leading to any knowledge.<br /><br />What is the principle on which you base your position that science cannot discern whether teleology or natural principles are responsible for differences among species, when science is clearly adequate to the task of distinguishing between the results of teleology and natural principles in other fields?Judnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-26888741799599023722012-09-13T07:36:55.384-04:002012-09-13T07:36:55.384-04:00So then you accept the null hypothesis that there ...<i> So then you accept the null hypothesis that there is no design and no designer? </i> Matt<br /><br />Give me strength. I DON'T REJECT "the null hypothesis". That SCIENCE can't deal with something is no guarantee that it isn't true. Science can't establish with the fact that I started school the year and date I did, but it is a fact that is as absolute as any. Science isn't the measure of all reality, it is only a method to try to discover some kinds of information about the physical universe. The only part of the physical universe it can tell you about are those aspects that can be studied with its methods and tools. Whatever doesn't fit into the methods and tools of science eludes its abilities. Most of reality eludes the abilities of science.<br /><br />Furthermore, since I reject the idea that science can deal with questions of God or teleology and design in nature, I would reject the attempt to frame questions about that as scientific "hypotheses". That inability prevents statements about those being scientific hypotheses. <br /><br />Jud, if you think your mind is like a thermos bottle, you're the best judge of your own mind, not me. Though with enough examples of that kind of thinking expressed by materialists it makes me wonder if they are expressing something about their experience of thinking when they represent it in such terms. Which might explain why you guys can't understand points such as the one I just made to Matt. Maybe I should just accept that materialists aren't especially deep thinkers. Maybe they should have thought through more philosophy. <br /><br />In any case, designing and making thermos bottles are as obvious an instance of intelligent design to achieve a purpose as you could have stumbled on. But what part of science do you use to know that? I know it by reading about how they were made, I may have read an encyclopedia article about the history of thermos bottles (in print, not online) when I was young, though I don't remember it, specifically. <br /><br />I will point out, as well, that, if you propose the thermos as an analogy from the universe and the designer for God, then the thermos is hardly inclusive of the natural universe. The people who designed it and made it were not performing a random act in nature but were, in fact, intelligently designing and making something, and people are not God. Your opponents would be completely correct if they point out that your joke was a way in which people could ignore obvious intelligent design and performance for something which is taken for being a mere act of nature with no design involved. Which would require me to point out a few different problems of going from thermos to universe, if the more callow among them wanted to go past what the analogy can tell you. <br /><br /> The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-33126372696779982862012-09-13T06:25:48.942-04:002012-09-13T06:25:48.942-04:00It seems Timmer is engaging in some sleight of han...It seems Timmer is engaging in some sleight of hand of his own. Notice how he uses the phrase 'noticable impact", where he quotes Encore saying 'functional impact'. Different animals.<br /><br />So are we to conclude that 'noticeability' is a pre-requisite for functionality?<br /><br />Timmer is obviously one of those 'out of sight, out of mind' 'conceptualists'. <br /><br />Maybe thats why he switched from research to journalism.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Timmer: "But the ENCODE press materials performed a sleight-of-hand, indicating that anything made into RNA must have a noticeable impact on the organism: "the genome contains very little unused sequences; genes are just one of many types of DNA sequences that have a functional impact."Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15246115342112568778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-30575571523134392722012-09-13T04:33:03.073-04:002012-09-13T04:33:03.073-04:00I agree that ENCODE is a great atlas of data, like...I agree that ENCODE is a great atlas of data, like Tycho Brahe's catalogs of stars and planet movements. But Tycho Brahe's catalogs were not hypothesis-driven science. Kepler and Newton took that data and did hypothesis-driven science.<br /><br />I'm not putting down science that's not hypothesis-driven, and I'm not putting down ENCODE. I'm just saying it's not hypothesis-driven science, but it was sold to the Muggles (non-scientists) as hypothesis-driven: thus they needed to concoct a ridiculous story-- about overturning the Junk DNA hypothesis!Diogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551943619872944637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-51573144046736593172012-09-12T22:03:29.456-04:002012-09-12T22:03:29.456-04:00Jud, that's a great joke. But allow me to intr...Jud, that's a great joke. But allow me to introduce an analogy.<br />Let's say the people in the paintings of George Seurat are 'alive'. They can think, and they can communicate with each other. They have considered their physical make-up, and have concluded that they are an ingenious, intricate system of small points of color. All these points are essentially the same, but in the manner they are arranged they make it possible for all the different people to exist, their surroundings, everything. They marvel at this discovery. But one of them feels that there must be more to their existence than just elemental points of color that happen to behave in such a way as to give rise to, them. He intuits that there must have been some planning involved in how they happened to come about, so well defined and well organized. Okay, how? - the others ask him. 'I don't know, but I just feel that this creator would have to possess powers beyond our own, and operate outside of our own known science." These painted people are stuck in place and time. They have no notion of movement, so the possibility of someone painstakingly planning out the scheme of the painting, and placing each point on the canvas where he wanted it to be, is not even imaginable to them.<br />You are crazy, and deluded, they tell him. 'There is NO evidence that what you are saying is anything more than a meaningless fantasy!"<br /><br />But still, he would be right.andyboergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159573123843322700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-49372543323289187392012-09-12T21:41:32.593-04:002012-09-12T21:41:32.593-04:00Are you saying that, clearly far from unanimous, P...<i>Are you saying that, clearly far from unanimous, POV expressed here is as reliable as the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun?</i><br /><br /><i>I haven't made any deductions about this issue other than to express skepticism that something believed to be non-functional today will never be discovered to have a well-defined function in the future.</i><br /><br />Once again I'm asking that you accumulate more information before taking a position. Reading posts from this blog (and some posts by T. R. Gregory as well) will help you understand just how huge the proportion is of human DNA that almost certainly has no function, but is nevertheless transcribed, and how that ties in so fundamentally to the discussions now taking place about ENCODE.<br /><br />Right now, you're stating conclusions about a controversy without really understanding the basis of either side of it. Maybe you get off on arguing even in the absence of knowledge. I get off on learning.Judnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-16213685643972628172012-09-12T21:30:19.537-04:002012-09-12T21:30:19.537-04:00I have always held that questions of teleology and...<i>I have always held that questions of teleology and "design" are not answerable by science.</i><br /><br />Then you have always been wrong.<br /><br />Let me introduce you to the Thermos joke:<br /><br />Three friends are having a spirited discussion about what is the greatest invention of all time. One says fire. A second says the wheel. The third says the Thermos.<br /><br />The other two ask him how he could ever propose the humble Thermos for inclusion in such august company. He replies, "If you put something cold in it, it stays cold. If you put something hot in it, it stays hot." "Yes, yes," his friends say, "but so what?" He looks at them for a long moment and says:<br /><br />"But how does it <i>know</i>?"<br /><br />So - teleology or insulation? Science can plainly answer. Please provide the principle that prevents the same from being true regarding whether teleology or scientifically explainable non-teleological principles are the source of species' characteristics.Judnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-34481649284859647892012-09-12T20:30:20.229-04:002012-09-12T20:30:20.229-04:00OK, now we're getting somewhere. So then you ...OK, now we're getting somewhere. So then you accept the null hypothesis that there is no design and no designer? I hesitate in using the word hypothesis, and perhaps should say that there is no reason to accept the existence of design and a designer. We agree?Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07745943486966305844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-58231969924707516082012-09-12T11:47:50.650-04:002012-09-12T11:47:50.650-04:00If Timmer is so good, then you must also accept hi...If Timmer is so good, then you must also accept his conclusion: ENCODE remains a phenomenally successful effort, one that will continue to pay dividends by accelerating basic science research for decades to come. <br /><br />Somehow I doubt that you do, based on your previous comments that ENCODE has provided nothing of fundamental importance,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-343338392244189212012-09-12T11:41:46.769-04:002012-09-12T11:41:46.769-04:00I don't have an irony meter you want to talk t...I don't have an irony meter you want to talk to Negative Entropy about that. Though, I'd think "meter" is probably an exaggeration. Not to mention "irony". <br /><br />Of course ID isn't science, anyone who understood what I said would know I don't think ID is science. How many times do I have to say SCIENCE CAN'T DEAL WITH THE CONCEPT OF A CREATOR, IT CAN'T DEAL WITH QUESTIONS OF TELEOLOGY OR DESIGN. i'VE SAID THAT FROM THE FIRST TIMES I EVER ADDRESSED THIS STUPID IDEOLOGICAL WAR.<br /><br />There, do you see it now? The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-23095801562872294522012-09-12T11:12:44.768-04:002012-09-12T11:12:44.768-04:00Read what you just posted, and then read it again....Read what you just posted, and then read it again. If your irony meter doesn't go off, you need a new one. What's that saying about the beam in your own eye...? Pretending to be above the fray in this matter is neither noble nor intellectually honest - there is no reason to think that evolution is guided. Let me ask you a straightforward question: Do you think ID is science? Another saying you bring to mind is the one about he who doth protest too much.Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07745943486966305844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-5637369691935851122012-09-12T02:24:56.730-04:002012-09-12T02:24:56.730-04:00There is a new paper that is relevant to the junk ...There is a new paper that is relevant to the junk DNA skirmish. <br />29 Mammalian genomes reveal novel exaptations of mobile elements for likely regulatory functions in the human genome.<br />http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18085818<br />They looked at conserved functional elements to see how many came originally from transposon DNA. They found a lot, but it still only amounts to about 10% of the transposon number in the human genome.Transposons are about half the genome, so this potentially involves about 5% of the genome. However, the actual DNA in the elements identified is only about 7 Mb or about 0.2% of the genome. These are conserved functional elements, and there are presumably species specific, or at least primate- specific elements that wouldn't be included, but the total is still a very small fraction of the genome.PNGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10152649124164862094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-16462086117848690112012-09-11T23:42:55.887-04:002012-09-11T23:42:55.887-04:00Chloe bag of different
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