@farmerman,
Quote:The irreducible complexity argument has been so discredited that theres nothing left to rally around.
That simply is not true. Could you document something better than we understand the system as it is running and we don't need to understand matter or the system came into existence?
Quote:Your use and insistance on "Algorithmic" control is such a baseless, evidence-free conjecture. Get to work, dont bother me with your beliefs, bother me with what you can verify or prove.
I disagree. I've provided the evidence in the pattern by comparing natural selection to man made algorithms. It is obvious to most reasonable people. Most people believe in a God because it seems obvious to them that the order and complexity they observe in the processes in the universe and life required an intelligence to initiate. You can believe what you want. Just don't force your belief on my children by masquerading it as science. Allow for freedom of expression and belief and allow Intelligently guided evolution to be taught along side atheistic evolution.
Quote:Your insistance on algorithms in effect is nothing more than a denial of how all the available evidence easily shows that evolution is pretty nuch NOT anagenetic and is actually opportunistic and subservient to edaphic and all other environmental factors
Definition:
Anagenesis is an evolutionary pattern defined by a gradual change that occurs in a species without the need for splitting. This contrasts with cladogenesis, which occurs when there is branching or splitting during speciation leading to two or more lineages and resulting in sister species.
Definition:
Edaphic is a nature related to soil. Edaphic qualities may characterize the soil itself, including drainage, texture, or chemical properties such as soil pH. Edaphic may also characterize organisms, such as plant communities, where it specifies their relationships with soil.
Could you clarify this argument. To be opportunistic there needs to be an algorithm in place (life that can evolve adapt and survive) or, intelligence must constantly intervene when the algorithm falls short, to make sure the opportunity is taken when it is provided. That is the pattern of all evolution to complexity we observe today, the past can't be different just because you want it to be.
Quote:Algorithms require an author LAWS do not. We only calls em laws because we discover how they work over and over and over again (common gas law, LAWS of chemical bonding, laws of surface chemical reactions, magnetism etc)
An ecosystem appears to be a collection of algorithms operating multiple pieces of hardware (planets, stars, plants, animals) all using an operating system (the laws of physics). All hardware, operating systems, and algorithms we have observed coming into existence have been initiated by intelligence. I don't understand why you don't acknowledge the patterns?
Quote:Evolution obeys these LAWS of science, I do agree that we dont fully understand all of em, but ignorance of those also keeps science chugging along.
"WORKING on ID science" is like a bit of fraud in action, instead of compiling evidence and reaching and changing conclusions, you seem to,want to have your people start with a default position and then search for what seems applicable (and summarily deny anything that doesnt)
There is nearly perfect complex order making up the space inside an atom, and in the false vacuum of empty space at distances from matter where gravity becomes negligible. The disorder of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle where matter and space come into contact, is where all our sensors operate. That is why it is so hard for us to detect the order, we mess the order of the false vacuum up with our sensors, and can't observe the order inside an atom because we can't see inside it without destroying it.
We are missing the extra layers of order built into the universe that are being revealed as we unite QM and Relativity with Entropic gravity. We are missing them because the building blocks of space are arranged so precisely they had to be arranged like a machinist building a planetary gear system inside every atom and every portion of space between those atoms. You cannot unite relativity and gravity and explain anything when you can't envision the basic building blocks of space and matter. For that reason, consciousness is required in the establishment of the initial conditions of the universe. The initial hardware (matter and the Higgs field) is complex. The initial operating system (the laws of physics) are revealed by the structure of the hardware, and the algorithm of ecosystems and life are amazingly complex and appear to have been adjusted many times in the past. And by your following quote Intelligence is still affecting the ecosystem:
Quote:all the available evidence easily shows that evolution is pretty nuch NOT anagenetic and is actually opportunistic and subservient to edaphic and all other environmental factors (including cataclysmic extinction events like that which we are experiencing today and which appears to be entirely under our control).
Maybe it is a later smaller version of the same intelligence that initiated the whole ecosystem in the first place. Maybe we need to try and learn about the initiator so we can figure out how to diagnose and fix the cataclysmic extinction event. Or, we could be biased (because of a bunch of misguided but well meaning people at the Discovery Institute) and throw that option in the garbage because of unfounded biases and keep shooting from the hip because science doesn't even know where gravity comes from let alone how it affects the Higgs field and the temperature of Earth.
Quote: Ive been in the business 40 years and hqve seen more crap, bad science, and downright criminal BS over "verification of Creationist science".
I agree. And the same is true about atheistic science of Stephen Hawking, Alan Gunth, Stephen Gould and their cohorts. Both sides need to quit calling each other names and see if they both can turn out some science that truly gives an explanation of what space looks like and how it operates rather than coming up with math to explain where needles are pointing.
You can't explain an automobile by just measuring the input rpm of the engine and then coming up with math to explain why the speedometer is reading and then calling that good. What's going to happen to the math when it runs out of gas or someone applies the brakes or shifts into reverse. As you pointed out if intelligence doesn't operate the system correctly damage or even a cataclysmic extinction event can be the result that could otherwise be controlled with intelligence that understands the operation and purpose of the automobile.
I think I figured out the structure of the space inside matter and in the Higgs field 15 years ago, but I am not in the game. (yet?) I am not a genius, it isn't any harder than figuring out what is going on inside a transmission without tearing it apart. But you have to admit that there are gears and planetary gears inside the transmission and rear end housings before you can hypothesize how it is built without taking it apart.