Homework Statement
If someone gave you this 5b2y + x2y2 + 5cz2 and said "Solve this problem" with no further instructions, what in the world would you do with this? It's some sort of multinomial and factoring that out is over my head if that's what is intended here. Anyone have a clue about...
Well dichter stole my point on this comment. The reason you observe this is because part of becoming a molecular biologists involves the acceptances of foundational theories. I believe Dichter called it "Indoctrination ".
I've never seen so many experts on such a complex subject as this. It's like watching movie critics giving thumbs up and down when they don't have a clue what it takes to make or act in a movie. Nothing wrong with discussing a topic you know little about, but the name calling and insulting...
Even more embarrassing...the same people who are ashamed of this view of so many people are perfectly willing to accept the ability of these same people to make an informed vote and then eagerly declare that Al Gore won the election in 2000. (See post from above)
I haven't read through this thread so forgive me if this has been pointed out but your arguments are against an omnipotent being, which may or may not having anything to do with intelligent design. Surely you aren't arguing that I am not intelligent simply because the house I built has flaws?
Yes I did know that the picture is a bit a more complicated than has been painted here but I don't see these things as necessaily convincing. The topic here has been one about randomness vs some sort of design. Since these things you have mentioned don't change what I believe the natural...
I defined the measure of complexity earlier as the volume of variables/entities/interactions that all together form a single unit. A unit typically of function. Without anyone part, the whole doesn't exist. You can also look at complexity as those things that are statistically unlikely, given...
Yes, I'm aware of this. It's just like the lottery example. But life is hardly like this. Unless you are assuming that a large percentage of those variations always lead to something as complex and functional as the eye? This doesn't address my impressions at all. It merely assumes that if it...
No, I mean Natural selection. I have no problem with evolution at all; just the mechanism for how it supposedly happened, which I believe the current thinking is that this is natural selection.
"Life as we know it" is only meant to capture all the knowledge that we currently have about life...
The truth of this statement depends on who you observe. Obviously it is untrue in some cases but this forum is full of professed scientists who do indeed exhibit the behaviours descibed by Les. Perhaps he has been influenced by these people in endless forum debates. But it also seems to me that...
Are you saying that there is scientific evidence that natural selection alone explains life as we know it? As I said, there is no doubt that natural selection works. Siting examples of it working does not make the case that it alone has done all that we see.
Well, first of all, I'm not...
I agree with him that it seems a bit far-fetched as the sole explanation for the diversity in life.
The Saturn V rocket, however doesn't seem far fetched at all.