I am hoping that I have you softened up (which is highly unlikely;you are
probably laying a trap for me), cause I want to return to a discussion we had
about a year and a half ago. I think the most important statement in Yockey's
book concerning the creation/evolution issue is this:
"Thus both random sequences and highly organized sequences are complex because
a long algorithm is needed to describe each one. Information theory shows
that it is fundamentally undecidable whether a given sequence has been
generated by a stochastic process or by a highly organized process. This is
in contrast with the classical law of the excluded middle (tertium non datur),
that is, the doctrine that a statement or theorem must be either true or
false. Algorithmic information theory shows that truth or validity may also
be indeterminate or fundamentally undecidable."~Hubert Yockey, Information
Theory and Molecular Systems, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992),
p. 82.
As I recall we disagreed about this. We appealed to Yockey personally but as
I recall I didn't think his answer was responsive to the question. Given that
life is highly organized not ordered, and it is believed that life came from a
random process, I interpreted this to mean that even if God had created life,
by creating highly organized sequences of DNA and creating a cell to put it
in, we would NOT be able to tell the difference between creation by God and
evolution by random processes.
glenn
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