In a message dated 10/9/2000 4:52:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
rwein@lineone.net writes:
> >DNAunion: OOL researchers have never backed up their claims that life
> arose
> >naturally on Earth with any undirected, synthesis in the whole,
> >prebiotically-plausible experiments.
>
> To quote my recent response to you:
>
> "OOL researchers are *not* claiming to have scientific evidence of OOL.
> Dembski *is* claiming to have scientific evidence of ID. Important
> difference. (Didn't I already make this point to you on the ARN board?)"
>
Not only that but using the "well they do it so Dembski should be allowed to
do it" is hardly a defence. But you are correct that if Dembski is making
this claim then he should back up his claims, irregardless of claims made by
OOL reseachers.
> >>Richard Wein: Nor has he been willing to clarify the method of the Design
> >Inference.
> >
> >DNAunion: Nor have OOL researchers ever clarified the processes that led to
> >the OOL.
>
> This is silly. Dembski claims to have a method for detecting design and to
> have used this method to detect ID. OOL researchers do not claim to know the
> processes that led to the OOL.
>
>
Again very true.
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