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Author Topic:   Discontinuing research about ID
AZPaul3
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Message 15 of 393 (755123)
04-04-2015 4:50 PM


No Review Here
From the OP this thread is not about reviewing the paper in question. It is a lament that there are no venues for review of papers on Intelligent Design, outside the loony fringe journals like BIO-Complexity which doesn't help a paper's credibility any since the real science world is going to laugh in a hysterically vigorous manner at anything published in that rag.
The fact that even the Discovery Institute's own flagship peer-review publication rejected this paper using some lame excuse about it not being "biology", when DI has quite often violated that unspoken standard, should tell us that even the least prestigious Intelligent Design journal on the planet thinks this paper is cra ... lacking.
I agree with the author that attempting a review of this paper in this forum would not be productive since it appears the bulk of the submission is a vacuous attempt to resurrect the illogic of numerology into a sciencey sounding screed and since, after due consideration and analysis, the conclusion would most probably match that which BIO-Complexity has already reached.
The lament having been voiced in the OP leaves little for this membership to contribute and having reached, and passed, its zenith in the one post I suggest this thread be closed so we can try to forget it ever happened.
Edited by AZPaul3, : Oh, big boo-boo. Naughty AZPaul, naughty, naughty.

  
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Message 36 of 393 (755158)
04-05-2015 12:56 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by Dubreuil
04-05-2015 11:43 AM


Because the pattern quantises coincidental appearances...
Poor Max Planck.
Not being a scientist you probably have no idea of the brutal amounts of energy it takes to get a dead person to turn over, let alone spin, in their grave.
Appearances are mostly coincidental triggered and depend on camera positions and environmental conditions, for example a tree that covers a person.
...or the writers and directors set the appearances specifically to further the plot but to the artistically ignorant these appearances seem coincidental.
Because the pattern quantises coincidental appearances that emerge to a pattern that was not created by chance with a probability of 1:10^7 it is assumed that there is a bias or an intelligent agent in chance itself.
So to translate, since the appearances show the specific pattern of the writer's and the director's intent and not chance, you assume there is an intelligent agent operating in chance. OK.
Let me get this straight now. You take a few episodes of a television program in which the character appearances are specifically determined by the writer and director and determine that the appearances do not match some obscurely determined chance probability (whatever that means). This you hold as proof that your specific flavor of god operates the universe.
Hey, I'm sold! I am flabbergasted that no reputable science journal would snap this up for publication in a heartbeat. It has "Stockholm" written all over it.
Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

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