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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Probability of Evolution
- Message-ID: <NcDFuB7w165w@kalki33>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 02:58:46 EST
- References: <BxuLxp.90K@well.sf.ca.us>
- Reply-To: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- Organization: Kalki's Infoline BBS, Aiken, SC, USA
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- keithd@well.sf.ca.us (Keith Doyle) writes:
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- > >The methods used by Dr. Thompson are based on standard
- > >information-theoretic models for determining the information content of
- > >physical systems. The information content of a typical cell is specified
- > >(within bounds) as is the information content of the physical laws which
- > >supposedly govern all possible material interactions. Since the
- > >information content of the known laws of physics, and of simple organic
- > >molecules, is relatively small, whereas the information content of
- > >living cells is quite large, there is the question of how a system of
- > >low information content can "evolve" into one of high information
- > >content without there being a pre-existing source of high information
- > >content to draw from. The balance of the chapter is an investigation
- > >of the reasons given by the discipline of molecular evolution that
- > >purport to account for this strange trend.
- >
- > Well here we have at least one new source of fallacy, that a "living cell"
- > is postulated to "evolve" in a single step. No one is claiming (except
- > Dr. Thompson it seems) that this is how the process occurred, that out
- > of the primordial "soup" a complete "living cell" assembled all at once.
- > I would agree here, the odds *are* probably some infinitesimally small
- > value such as Kalki cites. However, since that is not how anyone in the
- > scientific community suggests it has occurred, this evidence indicates
- > Dr. Thomson is using a straw man argument.
-
- My, what amazing powers of observation! Having not read the book, and
- having discovered no trace of inference in any of our posts that a cell
- is postulated to evolve in a single step, he is nevertheless able to
- "deduce" that we have postulated this, ex nihilo! That must be the same
- method of reasoning they used to come up with the theory of evolution!
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki "oh, I thought science and scientology were the same thing" Dasa
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