At 09:47 AM 09/29/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >>>>
>"The question all this poses is whether Dembski's analytical
>processes bearing upon CSI can, in the absence of further
>information from inside the "Algorithm Room", decide whether
>the solution received was actually the work of the intelligent
>agent (and thus "actual CSI") or the product of an algorithm
>falsely claimed to be the work of the intelligent agent (and
>thus "apparent CSI")?
><<<<
>
>billwald@juno.com
>An interesting (at least to me) parallel is the phenomenom of "speaking
>in tongues." A person stands up in church and makes noises with his
>mouth. Another person stands and claims the message (translation) is thus
>and so. Yet when the origional sounds are subjected to computer analysis
>no evidence of any kind of pattern or information or intelligence is
>detected.
And I know a person who is now Unitarian minister who was once a
Pentecostal and who can "speak in tongues" at the drop of a hat. It
wouldn't take much stage dressing to make it really realistic.
Susan
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