"Stephen E. Jones" wrote:
> Reflectorites
>
> To: <evolution@calvin.edu>
> Cc: (none)
> From: "Paul Nelson" <pnelson2@ix.netcom.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:51:45 -0500
> Subject: Examples of natural selection generating CSI
>
> [...]
>
> Paul Nelson, a leader of the ID movement, who is apparently lurking on the
> Reflector and therefore must be shaking in his boots with fear (or is it shaking
> in his sides with laughter? :-) at all this brilliant falsifying of unfalsifiable ID,
> wrote:
>
> PN>Hi Wesley:
> >
> >Do you have any examples of natural selection
> >actually generating CSI?
>
> [...]
>
> To which Wesley, after a bit of huffing and puffing, replied, in effect (see
> below), "well actually no Paul...but we have some *great* excuses why we
> haven't"!
>
> Steve
I'm not aware of an example of anything that can be labeled CSI. I've
seen claims by Dembski and others but have never seen any explicit
justification for such a claim.
Of course, Dembski wants to demonstrate the existence of miracles.
Wesley's genetic algorithms will, probably, not be deemed an
adequate substitute.
Ivar
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