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JonF
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Message 76 of 93 (801490)
03-06-2017 3:06 PM
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03-06-2017 2:32 PM


He did not see if the result was a functioning protein. He saw if the result carried out the original function. I suspect you know this and worded it slightly sloppily.

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Message 77 of 93 (801547)
03-07-2017 1:53 PM
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03-06-2017 3:05 PM


Got a link to the paper?
Behind a paywall. I read just the abstract and this article about the paper on Panda's Thumb. on Panda's Thumb.
Edited by caffeine, : tags

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caffeine
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Message 78 of 93 (801548)
03-07-2017 1:56 PM
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03-06-2017 3:06 PM


He did not see if the result was a functioning protein. He saw if the result carried out the original function. I suspect you know this and worded it slightly sloppily.
Yes, this is what I was trying to say - which is why his lowend probability estimate seems to be about the probability of a protein performing a specific function; rather than the probability of a protein with function.

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CRR
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Message 79 of 93 (802323)
03-15-2017 1:39 AM
Reply to: Message 69 by Dr Adequate
03-05-2017 9:38 PM


If you mash up any chemical system you'll change the outcome of the chemical process.
Precisely. Life is more than just chemical reactions.
Which are your 5 examples?

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Message 80 of 93 (802340)
03-15-2017 10:07 AM
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03-15-2017 1:39 AM


Life is more than just chemical reactions.
Sort of, but not really. What are you thinking of?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 81 of 93 (802343)
03-15-2017 10:43 AM
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03-15-2017 1:39 AM


Precisely. Life is more than just chemical reactions.
Yeah, there's also pixie dust and unicorn farts ... wait, no there isn't, what's your point?
Which are your 5 examples?
If you didn't read it, I suggest you do so.

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Message 82 of 93 (802773)
03-20-2017 6:47 AM
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03-15-2017 10:43 AM



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Pressie
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Message 83 of 93 (802778)
03-20-2017 7:24 AM
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03-20-2017 6:47 AM


So, no quantitative result for measuring genetic information yet?

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Coyote
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Message 84 of 93 (802793)
03-20-2017 9:39 AM
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03-20-2017 6:47 AM


Discovery Institute?
The Discovery Institute is not a very reliable venue for learning about science.
A prime example is their "Wedge strategy."
http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html
Two small quotes:
Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture seeks nothing less than the overthrow of materialism and its cultural legacies. Bringing together leading scholars from the natural sciences and those from the humanities and social sciences, the Center explores how new developments in biology, physics and cognitive science raise serious doubts about scientific materialism and have re-opened the case for a broadly theistic understanding of nature. ...
Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions.
In other words, they are advocating a "science" that conforms to their religious beliefs rather than following the evidence of the natural world.
In short: they are 180 degrees anti-science. I don't consider that a very good source of scientific knowledge.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other points of view--William F. Buckley Jr.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 85 of 93 (802831)
03-20-2017 3:37 PM
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03-20-2017 6:47 AM


I think the peer-reviewed scientific papers may be more accurate than a failed propaganda organization. But if you think they have any good points backed up by actual evidence, please do present the evidence.

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CRR
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Message 86 of 93 (802858)
03-20-2017 10:11 PM
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03-20-2017 3:37 PM


You've got some nerve criticising my use of the Discovery Institute when you referenced a web site that doesn't even show the author's affiliations or qualifications. Next you'll be referencing Talk Origins.
[edit: I also note that site uses the definition "evolution - any change in a population's allele frequencies over time". This is a definition specific to population genetics and is not suitable as a general definition as I made clear in my post at EvC Forum: How do you define the word Evolution? . Perhaps you'd like to give your definition in that thread]
Ann Gauger is a zoologist with a BS in biology from MIT and a 1989 PhD from the University of Washington. As a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard she cloned and characterized the Drosophila kinesin light chain. Her research has been published in Nature, Development, and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
The podcast I linked directly addresses one of the proteins mentioned in your link.
Edited by CRR, : para added

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Coyote
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Message 87 of 93 (802859)
03-20-2017 10:33 PM
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03-20-2017 10:11 PM


The Wedge Document again...
Ann Gauger is a zoologist with a BS in biology from MIT and a 1989 PhD from the University of Washington.
The problem is not one's education or credentials.
The problem is that to be associated with the Discovery Institute or any of the other similar religious-based fundamentalist organizations one must accept their particular religious beliefs. And the organizations' religious beliefs are always seen as superseding scientific evidence. It is obvious that religious belief can negate even the most distinguished academic education and credentials.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein
Refer back to the Wedge document I linked to earlier. Those folks want to destroy "materialistic" science and replace it with "theistic" science.
Here's a good analysis of the Wedge document by the Sensuous Curmudgeon:
What is the “Wedge Document”? | The Sensuous Curmudgeon
The Discovery Institute folks are clearly anti-science, and not a credible source for anything pertaining to science.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
In the name of diversity, college student demands to be kept in ignorance of the culture that made diversity a value--StultisTheFool
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
"Multiculturalism" demands that the US be tolerant of everything except its own past, culture, traditions, and identity.
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other points of view--William F. Buckley Jr.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 88 of 93 (802860)
03-20-2017 11:41 PM
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03-20-2017 10:11 PM


You've got some nerve criticising my use of the Discovery Institute when you referenced a web site that doesn't even show the author's affiliations or qualifications.
But we can assume he's not affiliated with the Discovery Institute, so he's got that going for him. Also copious references to the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
I note that you declined my invitation; let me repeat it: "if you think they have any good points backed up by actual evidence, please do present the evidence."
I have in fact heard of Ann Gauger. Here she is in a Discovery Institute video, standing in front of what appears to be a Real Scientific Laboratory Where Science People Do Science ...
... but which is in fact a stock photograph.
It is hard to think of a more perfect metaphor for "creation science".

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Message 89 of 93 (802909)
03-21-2017 3:28 PM
Reply to: Message 88 by Dr Adequate
03-20-2017 11:41 PM


Quote from Doctor Green Screen
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

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Pressie
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Message 90 of 93 (803113)
03-24-2017 6:16 AM
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03-20-2017 11:41 PM


Ah, a creationist being photoshopped into a lab she's never worked in ...

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