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Author Topic:   The Ten Laws of Creationism and Intelligent Design
caffeine
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Message 52 of 75 (803895)
04-05-2017 2:15 PM
Reply to: Message 30 by Davidjay
04-05-2017 9:02 AM


Re: Mathematics of Evolution
Someone HERE stated that there is mathematics associated with 'evolutionary' theory. Never heard anyone ever state that before.
This one took me aback a little. I would not have been surprised if you wanted to claim that the maths of evolutionary theory is all wrong; but to claim you've never heard someone say there is a maths of evolutionary theory after over a decade of arguing about this stuff is a bit... odd.
A lot of the basics of statistics were developed by evolutionary biologists. Probably the most important figure in the development of statistics is Ronald Fisher*; and the motivation behind a lot of the mathematical tools he developed was in making evolutionary theory more mathematically rigorous.
JBS Haldane's A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection is public domain and available online, being almost a century old. It's not light reading, but it's pretty dense on maths, if that's what you're looking for.
*my personal bias may be showing in this assessment.

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caffeine
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Message 65 of 75 (804014)
04-06-2017 1:17 PM
Reply to: Message 57 by Davidjay
04-05-2017 5:49 PM


Re: Reading Genesis literally but not scientifically
Herein we must stay on TOPIC, and further confirm the Ten Laws, somebody gave..... they sound pretty good to me, even though I never heard of them before.
So we have confirmation. If you deny one, do so logically and rationally. Thanks
Whilst I'm normally one to criticise those who question other posters' motives, I'll indulge myself since we're in the 'Free For All' forum.
It's tough to take seriously someone who declares their agreement with a parody mocking their position.

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