Speaking of “math alone doesn’t tell you everything”….
Irradiated by LabRat
Today I learned that “real” Intelligent Design theory, far from being a political creationist Trojan Horse championed by people who do not understand why methodological naturalism is important, is actually a real science about finding mathematical “markers” to show something is designed. It’s a real science because it’s falsifiable- if you can show something “irreducibly complex”- like a bacterial flagellum- could have evolved just fine without having to invoke a designer, ID is falsified and its honest proponents will presumably pack up and go home rather than calling Goalposts U-Haul and finding some other “irreducibly complex” biological gewgaw to add to the designer’s shrinking curriculum vitae.
Liu and Ochman, “Stepwise formation of the bacterial flagellar system”. Genome sequencing has really made finding these relationships rather than just positing them a lot faster. I have now falsified “real” ID. Cool, that took about five minutes for a jump over to my blogroll and a bit of typing. Don’t believe those haters that tell you science is hard!
May 30th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Nice.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Gosh, I don’t understand that paper.
…I understand the phrase “it’s magic!”
Let us define the universe in terms of Holly’s understanding and declare every mechanism more complex than a toaster oven to be Magic. It’s easier that way. You don’t have to bother trying to understand tricky things! Magic!
May 31st, 2008 at 10:48 am
“You don’t have to bother trying to understand tricky things! Magic!”
Makes more sense as saying “God did it!”, or “God lies to us by allowing fossils to be created”.
At least you are willing to admit you don’t understand the mechanism involved, instead of making crap up.