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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: "Dexter" <not@home.com> Newsgroups: alt.computer.workshop,talk.origins Subject: Re: CONTRARY EVIDENCE (WASRe: Evide)nce! Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:40:22 +0000 Organization: University of Ediacara Lines: 134 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: <xn0ojc7pnau2bwo009@news.giganews.com> References: <l4bukmFe1ulU1@mid.individual.net> <eTGdnXH2fpEw3374nZ2dnZfqlJ_8fwAA@giganews.com> <l4holqFaqukU1@mid.individual.net> <Vl4FN.343607$yEgf.190186@fx09.iad> <l4k49vFlpj0U1@mid.individual.net> <R59FN.35073$hN14.19961@fx17.iad> <us50n9$38rn0$1@dont-email.me> <0CGGN.123819$CYpe.8878@fx40.iad> <uskhdv$30tec$1@dont-email.me> <vy9IN.3279$_a1e.2580@fx16.iad> <usv6lv$1n5jj$1@dont-email.me> <CTPIN.439433$Ama9.157927@fx12.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="43855"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.20-0cfde51 (x86; Portable ISpell) To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Return-Path: <poster@giganews.com> X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 1425E22976C; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:37:02 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5759229758 for <talk-origins@ediacara.org>; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:36:59 -0400 (EDT) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.97) for talk-origins@moderators.isc.org with esmtp (envelope-from <poster@giganews.com>) id 1rkzMv-00000003bgh-0QwF; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 05:40:33 +0100 by egress-mx.phmgmt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4FE60B47 for <talk-origins@moderators.isc.org>; Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:40:21 +0000 (UTC) by serv-1.ord.giganews.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D440F4406A3 for <talk-origins@moderators.isc.org>; Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:40:22 -0500 (CDT) by serv-1.i.ord.giganews.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id 42F4eM0D094727; Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:40:22 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: serv-1.i.ord.giganews.com: news set sender to poster@giganews.com using -f X-Path: news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:40:22 +0000 X-Ref: news.giganews.com ~XNS:000006BD X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Original-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 9980 Ron Dean wrote: > Mark Isaak wrote: > > [Crosspost to uk.comp.sys.mac removed. I'll remove alt.computer.workshop > > in my next reply, if any.] > > > > On 3/12/24 9:01 PM, Ron Dean wrote: > > > Mark Isaak wrote: > > > > On 3/8/24 7:59 AM, Ron Dean wrote: > > > > > Mark Isaak wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > What Ron neglects in his analysis is, first, that evolution is a > > > > > > designer -- not as efficient as human designers, but a designer > > > > > > nonetheless; and second, that where humans and evolution differ > > > > > > regarding their being designers, life unquestionably looks like it > > > > > > is not the result of intelligent design. > > > > > > > > > > > Of course life looks designed. There is nothing else on the planet > > > > > with the capacity to replace or reproduce itself with the same level > > > > > of complexity and organization as does life. Life alone has the > > > > > capability and the information to obtain needed raw materials, > > > > > modify and order these materials into the highly organized entities > > > > > called living organisms. Secondly, one of the fact that's of the > > > > > essentials of all is the question of origins. Darwin himself > > > > > acknowledged that the key to the past is the present. > > > > > > > > > If one accepts this truism, then to our present knowledge the > > > > > _only_source of highly complex information is mind. > > > > > > > > That is a huge non sequitur, and it is not true. We know from physics > > > > (and astronomy and geology and meteorology) that complexity forms > > > > spontaneously in a wide variety of circumstances. > > > > > > > Complex forms do no constitute highly complex information which in this > > > case infers knowledge, know-how or instructions. Crystals can form > > > complex strictures so can bubbles in water, star formations, but there > > > is nothing pertaining to information. > > > > That's because you define information away in those cases. By most > > definitions of information, information forms, or at least gets localized, > > in stars, hurricanes, cave formations, river systems, etc. > > > > > > > Information is key, > > > > > > > > No, energy flow is key. > > > > > > > I agree, energy is key, but energy without information that's > > > controlling energy, energy can be and usually is destructive. A tornado > > > is not controlled by intelligence energy. But a tractor with a > > > controlling factor (a man) is controlled energy, if the man has a heart > > > attack and dies, the throtle remains open, now the tractors energy is > > > uncontrolled. The barn, stables and building can be destroyed. > > > > You miss the reality. Energy flow *without controlling information* can > > and does, observably and repeatably, produce complex, information-dense > > formations. Yes, energy can be destructive. So can intelligence; homicide > > kills a lot more people than tornadoes do. But flowing energy has a > > tendency to produce order. If the principle could be quantified, it would > > probably be a fourth law of thermodynamics. > > > > > > > > > > > Darwin observed pigeons and finches that were varying sizes shapes > > > > > and differing beaks and he concluded that change was unlimited. This > > > > > proved false, unknown to Darwin was the information contained in > > > > > DNA. We observe dogs and hogs of differing sizes and shapes, but > > > > > there is a limit to the change possible which is determined by > > > > > information. > > > > > > > > That doesn't even make sense. If change is limited by information, > > > > then a change to the information eliminates those limits. > > > > > > > True, but cave fish went blind, some birds lost their ability to fly. > > > Dogs can vary in size and shape, but they cannot grow new organs. > > > Because the information in DNA to express new organs don't exist. But > > > it's possible to lose information and fail to survive. We once owed a > > > dog that gave birth to pups that were blind on two different occasions. > > > So, the information required for functioning eyes was lost. > > > > Yeah, so? I have lost money on more than one occasion, and I know the same > > is true of most people. If I were to go by your logic, everybody is losing > > money, and nobody is making any. > > > > Don't forget also to look at such things as the adaptions to high > > altitude, evolved separately in the Andes and Tibet, and tetrachromacy. > > > > > > Also, I don't believe Darwin ever supported the idea that change was > > > > unlimited. Change is still limited by constraints imposed by physics > > > > and resources, > > > > > > > I agree, also absent in DNA. > > > > > > > > > and there appear to be some possibilities (large wheels is > > > > the only example I know) that cannot evolve from existing forms. > > > > > > > > > There is no information (DNA) which expresses for wings on a hog. > > > > > But there can be a loss of information, birds that lost the ability > > > > > to fly. The origin of life itself: since the present is key to the > > > > > past, the Pasteur experiment that life comes only from life has > > > > > never been falsified. Life must have been created billion years ago. > > > > > And until a better explanation is discovered. In science the origin > > > > > of life remains unresolved, there is no more logical or rational > > > > > conclusion available than what we observe in the present. We do not > > > > > observe new non carbon life or other substances forming a unique > > > > > type of life at present, again verifying the fact that life comes > > > > > from life. "And God breathed the breath of life into man and man > > > > > became a living soul". Man as the only concern of the writer of the > > > > > statement, but also life was breathed into other life forms. \ > > > > > > > > Unfortunately for your position, the constraints to change do not > > > > include one's choice of religion or lack of ability to conceive of > > > > alternatives. > > > > > > > At the present there is no better explanation. > > > > There is no better explanation for biological change of populations over > > extended time than evolution. I know of only one other explanation -- > > tampering by super-high-tech extraterrestrials --, and nobody takes it > > seriously. Creationism, aka magic, is not an explanation; it is a word to > > use in place of one. > > > > > Don't get my wrong I am against organized religion. But this is a > > > religious dogma which comes from religious sources. But the only > > > argument against this dogma is atheism - there is a God or there is no > > > God, either of which is in reality, just a philosophy. But my bet would > > > be on the positive. > > > > None of which has any relevance to the issue of evolution. > > > No one on TO is serious! I'm not dealing with this any longer. This is it! My > Final Post! ------------------------------------- Promise?