tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post1665435451499104109..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: I'm not a Darwinist, but I Ain't SigningLarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-50790628963468813992011-04-27T11:46:59.638-04:002011-04-27T11:46:59.638-04:00Is your name Moran or Moron?Is your name Moran or Moron?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-68252193825355244562008-07-08T19:12:00.000-04:002008-07-08T19:12:00.000-04:00The "Complexity of Life" would include the complex...The "Complexity of Life" would include the complexity of the DNA code and the associated reproductive machinery that it drives.<BR/><BR/>Darwin's Model is about the occasional emergence of new species from existing ones, by means of perturbations in the reproductive processes.<BR/><BR/>In other words, Darwin's Model takes over <I>after</I> DNA-based self-reproducing systems have emerged out of whatever preceded them. Darwin's Model is mute on the origin of life itself and offers no insight into how such an astonishingly complex system of self-reproducing molecular machinery ever emerged out of organic chemistry.<BR/><BR/>If and when science ever solves that mystery, the theory will probably owe very little to Darwin's thinking on the subject, since he admitted (in letters to colleagues) that he had no clue how life on earth ever got started in the first place.Moultonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14800784950094043498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-35172883359296164262007-01-26T12:56:00.000-05:002007-01-26T12:56:00.000-05:00Almost any evolutionist (besides extreme proponent...Almost any evolutionist (besides extreme proponents of self-organization) would agree that "random mutation and selection" is necessary but not sufficient for the "complexity of life."<br /><br />Also, what does the statement mean by "complexity"? Does it refer to the diversity of life at all levels of biological organization, in which case non-selectionist processes are important, or does it mean adaptation, in which case selection has a predominant role (notwithstanding models focusing on self-organization and/or instructionist processes).Les Nymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09728584275518605128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-86971940608237097162007-01-26T07:40:00.000-05:002007-01-26T07:40:00.000-05:00What is needed is a similar statement about Newton...What is needed is a similar statement about Newton. Or Lord Kelvin. Yes, Lord Kelvin. We are skeptical about Lord Kelvin's estimate of the age of the earth and other research. Clearly his work on thermal energy is flawed and increasingly we find dissent among PhD holding scientists...Greg Ladenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973115018538144984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-14379605795693043342007-01-25T16:38:00.000-05:002007-01-25T16:38:00.000-05:00The NCSE's Project Steve Steve-o-meter is up to 78...The NCSE's <a href="http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/articles/3541_project_steve_2_16_2003.asp">Project Steve</a> Steve-o-meter is up to 784. I consider myself a "Steve by proxy" since I convinced someone else to sign up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-12418701319973791902007-01-25T16:33:00.000-05:002007-01-25T16:33:00.000-05:00Dembski himself is listed as "PhD Mathematics Uni...Dembski himself is listed as "PhD Mathematics University of Chicago".<br /><br />I can't sign up. My name isn't Steve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-73717618979096241962007-01-25T14:58:00.000-05:002007-01-25T14:58:00.000-05:00Chris Hyland is wrong about how affiliations are n...Chris Hyland is wrong about how affiliations are noted in the Disco Institutes's list of Darwin Doubters.<br /><br />The Disco Institute is deceptive about how it lists the affiliations of people, consistently choosing a 'connection' that's most prestigious. For example, the affiliation of Stephen Meyer, Program Director of the Center for Whatsit at the DI, is listed as "Cambridge University" on their Darwin Doubters list. Meyer got his Ph.D. at Cambridge. And that Cambridge listing was the case when Meyer was a faculty member at Palm Beach Atlantic University, a conservative religious institution. It never appeared next to Meyer's name.<br /><br />On the other hand, Glen Needham, an Ohio State entomologist, is listed with that affiliation though his Ph.D. is from Oklahoma State. Hence the U of TO affiliation listed for those two guys is not surprising.RBHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13562135000111792590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-23654587476257067452007-01-25T14:48:00.000-05:002007-01-25T14:48:00.000-05:00If someone works at an institution they will list ...If someone works at an institution they will list that otherwise it's where they got their phd.Chris Hylandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10122945209753290426noreply@blogger.com