>Now, wrt Spetner, I hesitate to answer since I haven't read his
>book. The title is suggestive of the possibility that Spetner
>may be following the well worn path of the argument from the
>false alternative. If its not by chance then it must have been by
>design. I remember well a comment made by Will Provine on the
>asa listserve. Given a choice between chance and design he would
>choose design without hesitation.
His book is on Amazon for $15, and is well worth reading. He is not in any
camp I am familiar with (he is probably an Orthodox Jew, as comes out in
the book), and his approach is novel. He does not even consider things
that have not been demonstrated experimentally (probably because of his
background in Physics), but he does cover the ground well for modern
molecular biology. His expertise in physics is information theory, and he
has soem background in biophysics as well. It is not your typical arm
waving kind of creationist stuff, and is interesting reading as well.
>Also, the claim above regarding the lack of evidence for any
>addition of new information seems to me to be extraordinary.
>Is he saying that human beings, for example, do not have more
>information than say ancient pre-cambrian organisms?
No. Just that the difference in information did not arise by any
scientifically demonstrated pathway.
Art
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