FMAJ1019 wrote:
> An interesting assertion but if I understand Richard and
> Wesley correctly, they are looking for an actual example
> with numbers. Furthermore they are looking for examples
> in nature of CSI.
The magnetic patterns on your hard drive exist in nature.
They're as real as your hands resting on the keyboard.
> One cannot merely assert that CSI
> exists, one has to show that it does.
Hmm. "Show your work," right, like on
a math quiz?
OK. There are 27 characters in the
English alphabet (26 letters, and a space)...
Nah. Too tedious. Your msgs are CSI.
Mine are CSI. Do the calculations
yourself, I'm too busy.
> An interesting "riddle" was also given by Wesley with
> his "algorithm room".
> http://inia.cls.org/~welsberr/ae/dembski_wa.html
Right. Wesley and I have talked about this in
private correspondence. Ask Wesley if he knows
of any evolutionary algorithm whose causal
history (as lines of code) does not implicate at
least one intelligent agent. Put another way,
evolutionary algorithms are proxy agents.
If you pursue the causal story, you'll find the
action of a designer somewhere down the road.
Think about it this way. If you wrote a program
to write your e-mail msgs for you, and I detected
the program, sooner or later I'd track you down
too. CSI requires an intelligent cause, whether
immediately or remotely.
Paul Nelson
Senior Fellow
The Discovery Institute
www.discovery.org/crsc
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