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yxifix
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Message 496 of 562 (134573)
08-17-2004 4:45 AM
Reply to: Message 494 by Percy
08-16-2004 9:34 PM


Percy writes:
I've never seen anyone walk from Boston to San Francisco, but I've often seen people walk a considerable distance. From this I can reasonably conjecture that one could walk all the way from Boston to San Francisco. Someone could object that I've never actually observed anyone walking between these cities and that therefore it isn't possible, and silly as this would be it is the same as your claim that mutations cannot accumulate to produce significant change in organisms. Just as there seems nothing to stop someone stringing together enough steps to walk from Boston to San Francisco, there is also no apparent obstacle to stringing together enough mutations to cause speciation.
Hopeless ignorant attempt. DEMAGOGY once again!
If anybody is walking a considerable distance, the important thing is, he decided to walk considerable distance to get somewehere!... (where he is going it doesn't matter at this case, as in your "mutation" theory -> a destination is your aim -> eg created "vision").
Genetic code can't decide to create an exact mutation it wants and repeat it again and again and again and again. So do you understand where is your problem? DNA code is a program and unless some intelligence doesn't decide to insert an instruction that it can decide if it can make mutations when it likes [as well as an instructions which "tells" it the meaning of created result by mutation] and so theoretically create another informations, DNA code can't do that, Percy !! And THIS is your main problem.
Unraveling specific evolutionary pathways and aligning them with specific mutations for morphological structures like the hand is in many cases likely to prove impossible because mutations and allele frequency changes don't leave a paper trail. But we can be confident it developed through the same processes we observe taking place today.
Don't just talk about your assertions and give me evidence for your premise.
The only way (according to your words about mutations) is to create a hand by accident by mutations, that means -> By mutations is created 1st part of a hand, then by chance created another and another and another, until by chance half-hand is creted over elbow and then the same process continues until whole hand including fingers and nails is done, maybe in billions stages. ...well, or you can apply it to a "leg" of a fish with legs (part of evolution theory), that's the same in fact... so....you understand what you are talking about?? Absolut nonsense ! Percy. You have to think.
Asking such questions is similar to asking how a particular grain of sand in the desert arrived at its current location. In most cases we would be unable to answer that question in any detail because there simply isn't sufficient evidence. But we can confidently say that it was due to geological and environmental processes, or perhaps it arrived off the sole of someone's shoe, and of course there are other possibilities.
Well... first of all, demagogic example => not the same example.
Have anybody changed a genome of a man during evolution? No, you are not saying something like that. So you can't use 'maybe it arrived off the sole of someone's shoe", sorry. ...so you have to talk only about desert, not about "accidental arrivals of grains of sand", ok? That's the first part. The second one is I'm not interested in each cell, I'm interested how a DNA code "knew" it is going to build a hand. So don't talk, and explain.
I'm afraid I don't have any answers except the ones you've already been provided. But your question isn't relevant to the point I was making, something you would have realized had you read Message 99 more carefully. It had been asserted that random mutation cannot add information, and my example was an illustration of how random mutation can increase the amount of information in a population's genome. The example is valid no matter how codes align with colors.
I'm sorry I haven't been provided by your answers. You have to do it again, if you think so. ...the truth is, that to find out which color is '0001' (or A,C,T,G) you need a 'translation' program (RNA)! But this program has to have already 'inserted' information what exactly would new 'mutation' do, if it is "good" mutation!! Otherwise it just won't translate it and a big message "ERROR!" will pop up -> the result? Organism stops working properly.
So, as you can see, without intelligence it is nonsense -> Invalid. -> Mission impossible -> the point where whole theory just stops.
To learn something how such code works, click here.
There is absolutely no chance DNA code can be created without existing cell and a cell can be created without existing DNA. Sorry, but that's the truth.
quote:
DNA is a code. It is written in only four 'letters', called A, C, T and G. The meaning of this code lies in the sequence of the letters A, T, C and G in the same way that the meaning of a word lies in the sequence of alphabet letters. Different languages use different alphabets to convey meaning. (Understand this?!!! Intelligence needed! What a shame for your theory, isn't it?)
So what does that mean? To find out which color is 0001, you need and intelligence which can create a program which is able to 'translate' a code '0001' . Percy.
And that means -> my definitions in this message are proved ones once again.
And that means... very simply -> "meaning of information" can't arise by itself without intelligence (as you would like) -> meaning has always came with information. And the result is:
THEORY OF EVOLUTION IS JUST A FICTION.
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yxifix
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Message 497 of 562 (134576)
08-17-2004 5:00 AM
Reply to: Message 495 by Wounded King
08-17-2004 4:17 AM


Re: turtles all the way down?
Oh yes, of course, he hasn't provided specific muatations linke to the evolution of hair, nails, teeth, lungs, etc... and therefore his being unable to provide an exhaustive list of every mutation leading to the development of modern vertebrates clearly exonerates you of the burdern of answering a very simple question.
Believe me, it is, as every other question of all of you. This is just a matter of principle.
So your contention is that if your proof is insufficient the I have to be able to show you what the proof is, even if what you want proved isn't actually provable, before you will admit that what you presented wasn't actually proof?
Doesn't that seem a bit illogical to you?
Please stop to be ignorant and don't answer by questions. My question was clear. Is it a proof or not? Then you can write down your questions. Thank you.
I've seen any number of answers to you on this thread alone, and they have all been as water off a duck's back on you.
Hopeless assertion, nothing more.
Did you ever give a reference for your supposedly often repeated computer exeriment, I didn't notice one. And once again, an experiment is not proof, it merely supports or fails to support a given hypothesis.
I'm asking if a result - definitions are a proof of successfull experiment -> are they proved ones? Stop to be ignorant and answer clearly! Thank you.
Ah, an example of a proof? Easy enough here is an example of a mathematical proof and here are some proofs more in line with your thinking.
Sorry, I am not talking about mathematical proofs. Well.... or only mathematical proofs exists and no other? Thank you for the answer.
The same question is going also to you:
If I want to find out if a computer can do an operation [randomly selecting letters] itself without inserted program and without a man to help it to do so, do I have to try experiment on every computer in the world? Please answer clearly, thank you. So we can get to the point very quickly.

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mark24
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Message 498 of 562 (134579)
08-17-2004 5:08 AM
Reply to: Message 488 by yxifix
08-16-2004 8:25 PM


Re: So you wanna proof?
yxifix,
This requires a simple yes or no answer.
Did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence of something was impossible?
Thank you
Mark

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yxifix
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Message 499 of 562 (134582)
08-17-2004 5:16 AM
Reply to: Message 498 by mark24
08-17-2004 5:08 AM


Re: So you wanna proof?
mark24 writes:
Did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence of something was impossible?
Once again ignorant demagogic question.
You have to answer clearly on my stated questions, you've just skipped, mark.

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mark24
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Message 500 of 562 (134587)
08-17-2004 5:30 AM
Reply to: Message 499 by yxifix
08-17-2004 5:16 AM


Re: So you wanna proof?
yxifix,
Once again ignorant demagogic question.
How can a question be demagogic?
How can a valid, qualifying question be ignorant?
How can I be a demagogue at all without being a leader?!
You have to answer clearly on my stated questions, you've just skipped, mark.
That's all you have done with mine, avoided my questions. Join the club. You go back & address every question I've put to you & I'll do the same, deal?
What would be the point anyway? You ask for evidence of the age of the earth, I post it, quoting the results, & citing the relevant paper, & the next post you are still saying it's an assertion!
I've decided to get simple. Build up principle by principle.
So, did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence of something was impossible?
Yes, or no? What are you afraid of?
Mark

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Wounded King
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Message 501 of 562 (134589)
08-17-2004 5:53 AM
Reply to: Message 497 by yxifix
08-17-2004 5:00 AM


Re: turtles all the way down?
This is just a matter of principle.
How convenient that your principles allow you to evade direct questions.
My question was clear. Is it a proof or not?
Your question was not clear because that wasn't what you asked. What you said was
If it is not a proof you have to show me how the proof looks like.
I already answered whether it was a proof or not, as has almost everyone else on this thread, and the answer is no.
I'm asking if a result - definitions are a proof of successfull experiment -> are they proved ones? Stop to be ignorant and answer clearly! Thank you.
Given the disjointed natur of this paragraph it seems somewhat rich for you to desire a clear answer. The results of experimentation will not prove anything, they will support or fail to support specific hypotheses. Experiments provide no proof, only support.
Sorry, I am not talking about mathematical proofs. Well.... or only mathematical proofs exists and no other? Thank you for the answer.
OK, a short digression on the nature of proof. Mathematical and logical proofs are the only proofs in the sense of 'a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it'. You proof is not a logical proof as it does not satisfy these criteria. The experimental evidence you discuss might be sadi to be proof in the sense of 'any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something', in much the same way as the results of an experiment help to establish the truth by supporting specific hypotheses. This sort of proof is only conditional however, it does not establish any absolute truth.
If I want to find out if a computer can do an operation [randomly selecting letters] itself without inserted program and without a man to help it to do so, do I have to try experiment on every computer in the world?
If you wanted to absolutely prove it then yes, you would need to show it to be the case on every computer, of the type you were studying, for all time. You could however draw conclusions from only a moderately sized sample run over a reasonable length of time, but this would not be proof, only support for the hypothesis that the computer will not perform the operation without human input.
But even with all this no one is arguing that Pasteur's experiment is in any real doubt, simply that it is not a proof except in the sense of offering very strong support for a specific hypothesis. That hypothesis says nothing to the possibility of abiogenesis however as abiogenesis, as in the development of living things from non-living chemicals, does not require bacteria to form in sterile water.
TTFN,
WK

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Message 502 of 562 (134590)
08-17-2004 5:53 AM
Reply to: Message 499 by yxifix
08-17-2004 5:16 AM


demagogic question
Once again ignorant demagogic question.
Please explain what you mean by this phrase.
Adminnemooseus

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yxifix
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Message 503 of 562 (134591)
08-17-2004 5:57 AM
Reply to: Message 500 by mark24
08-17-2004 5:30 AM


Re: So you wanna proof?
How can a question be demagogic?
How can a valid, qualifying question be ignorant?
How can I be a demagogue at all without being a leader?!
quote:
Demagogy is generally a method of convincing a listener of a false fact by appealing to the person's common sense and logic. In this sense, demagogy is not a lie, since it doesn't use false facts directly, but rather brings the unsuspicious listener to draw the appropriate conclusion himself. Demagogy is closely related to the logical fallacy, but unlike the latter, it sometimes has nothing to do with logic.
Methods not involving violations of logic
Numerical demagogy - mixing of incomparable quantities. For example, "our government has increased social spending by 5 billion dollars, while the previous government has increased it only by 0.4 percent." Obviously, the latter sounds like less, but one cannot be sure.
False authority - relying on the general authority of a person who is not proficient in the discussed topic. Example: "the professor read my book, and liked it very much". The fact that it was a professor of chemistry who read a book on anthropology is omitted.
Methods involving violation of logic
For or against (bifurcation) - assuming that there are only two possible opinions on a given topic. Example: "Smith is not with us, therefore he is against us". A possibility of Smith's neutral position is ignored.
Arguments unrelated to a discussion
Unrelated facts - bringing unrelated facts that sound in favor of the speaker's agenda. Example: "Our beverages do not contain sodium deoxycholate". This is probably true, but the mentioned chemical is a detergent, and should not be contained in any beverage whatsoever.
Emotional attack - an attempt to bring a discussion to an emotional level. For example, "Everyone is against me!", "Can't I be right just once?", "You are stupid!", "You are demagoguing!".
That's all you have done with mine, avoided my questions. Join the club. You go back & address every question I've put to you & I'll do the same, deal?
Deal. Let me know about all unanswered questions which are not offtopic.
When I've asked something offtopic I've also said you don't have to answer/discuss it as it is offtopic, haven't I?
What would be the point anyway? You ask for evidence of the age of the earth, I post it, quoting the results, & citing the relevant paper, & the next post you are still saying it's an assertion!
No, that's what I'm talking about. You don't have to answer about mentioned age of the earth as it is offtopic. (assertion, yes -> you would have to show me a proof that the rocks are that old. If somebody just said that, that's no evidence, you must agree; so you must know a procces of the "experiments", how they were done.)
I've decided to get simple. Build up principle by principle.
So, did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence of something was impossible?
Yes, or no? What are you afraid of?
Demagogic question.
You have to answer to my questions mark... eg this, the most important one:
If I want to find out if a computer can do an operation [randomly selecting letters] itself without inserted program and without a man to help it to do so, do I have to try experiment on every computer in the world? Please answer clearly, thank you. So we can get to the point very quickly.
See last sentence. Both of us want the same... I hope so. To get to the point finally.

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yxifix
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Message 504 of 562 (134593)
08-17-2004 6:00 AM
Reply to: Message 502 by Adminnemooseus
08-17-2004 5:53 AM


Re: demagogic question
Please explain what you mean by this phrase.
?
I thought it is obvious... he is still ignoring what I have asked or said. And then continues with his demagogy (definition above). Admin.

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mark24
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Message 505 of 562 (134594)
08-17-2004 6:08 AM
Reply to: Message 503 by yxifix
08-17-2004 5:57 AM


Re: So you wanna proof?
yxifix,
How does my question meet any of the "demagogic" criteria in your thread? After all, the nature of the demagogue is to convince using statements, I asked a question.
As far as I can see my question violated no logic, does not meet the criteria to be guilty of numerical demagogy, false authority, bifurcation, unrelated facts, nor is it an emotional attack. Therefore it is not guilty of being demagogic.
If I want to find out if a computer can do an operation [randomly selecting letters] itself without inserted program and without a man to help it to do so, do I have to try experiment on every computer in the world? Please answer clearly, thank you. So we can get to the point very quickly.
If you want 100% proof. Yes, & you have to keep all of them under observation all of the time time, too.
Now answer my question, did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence of something was impossible?
Mark

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Message 506 of 562 (134599)
08-17-2004 6:24 AM


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yxifix
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Message 507 of 562 (134612)
08-17-2004 8:02 AM
Reply to: Message 501 by Wounded King
08-17-2004 5:53 AM


Re: turtles all the way down?
Wounded King writes:
How convenient that your principles allow you to evade direct questions.
Demagogy.
My question was clear. Is it a proof or not?
Your question was not clear because that wasn't what you asked. What you said was
My question was clear, as you can read here:
I'm asking if a result - definitions are a proof of successfull experiment -> are they proved ones? Stop to be ignorant and answer clearly! Thank you.
Given the disjointed natur of this paragraph it seems somewhat rich for you to desire a clear answer. The results of experimentation will not prove anything, they will support or fail to support specific hypotheses. Experiments provide no proof, only support.
If I want to find out if a computer can do an operation [randomly selecting letters] itself without inserted program and without a man to help it to do so, do I have to try experiment on every computer in the world?
If you wanted to absolutely prove it then yes, you would need to show it to be the case on every computer, of the type you were studying, for all time. You could however draw conclusions from only a moderately sized sample run over a reasonable length of time, but this would not be proof, only support for the hypothesis that the computer will not perform the operation without human input.
So in this case you must apply the same on your "evidences" for theory of evolution...
Join the club !
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But even with all this no one is arguing that Pasteur's experiment is in any real doubt, simply that it is not a proof except in the sense of offering very strong support for a specific hypothesis.
So this means... that an experiment with a computer is not a proof but it offers very strong support for a specific hypothesis -> 'intelligence' needed when life was created. That is what you've just said.
[Don't forget (20+20) is the same as 40]
Bye bye.

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yxifix
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Message 508 of 562 (134613)
08-17-2004 8:09 AM
Reply to: Message 505 by mark24
08-17-2004 6:08 AM


Re: So you wanna proof?
mark24 writes:
How does my question meet any of the "demagogic" criteria in your thread? After all, the nature of the demagogue is to convince using statements, I asked a question.
And this is demagogy once again. It doesn't matter if you ask a question or not, important is its substance. (explained later)
In fact, demagogy is your (well, of many evolutionists if not all) main weapon when discussing with a creationist. But now you hit the wall. You can't use it, and that's your problem, that's why you will always stuck in your own words you used against creationists before. And that's very sad.
As far as I can see my question violated no logic, does not meet the criteria to be guilty of numerical demagogy, false authority, bifurcation, unrelated facts, nor is it an emotional attack. Therefore it is not guilty of being demagogic.
quote:
Unrelated facts - bringing unrelated facts that sound in favor of the speaker's agenda. Example: "Our beverages do not contain sodium deoxycholate". This is probably true, but the mentioned chemical is a detergent, and should not be contained in any beverage whatsoever.
If I want to find out if a computer can do an operation [randomly selecting letters] itself without inserted program and without a man to help it to do so, do I have to try experiment on every computer in the world? Please answer clearly, thank you. So we can get to the point very quickly.
If you want 100% proof. Yes, & you have to keep all of them under observation all of the time time, too.
So that means Newton's proofs are not 100% proofs as well as you have to search each 100m of Sahara desert (sand) to find out if it is everywhere on the sand the same (maybe absolutely the same sand is harder on the western part then eastern one) ..........hm.... ok.
So in this case you must apply the same on your "evidences" for theory of evolution...
And we've reached that point once again:
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Now answer my question, did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence of something was impossible?
And now listen carefully -> I show you where is your demagogy -> Simple answer just to this question would create "unrelated fact that sound in favor of the speaker's agenda". You haven't asked "second part" of a question (although you know it is important) and that is: "If so, have you proved why it is so and when and how that "something" can occur?"
The answer is:
Sure. Impossible because a subject (non-living thing without an intelligence -> evolution uses nonliving thing [without an intelligence] to create a life -> all non-living things are without an intelligence) used in the experiment proved it. So just to make it clear -> I used non-living things to generate an information. And the result of experiment was not just that an occurrance of something was impossible -> that's just one part... I've also proved how to create such "something" - what is needed.
So I have proved "TRUE" as well as "FALSE" ....
And now... YOUR POINT? You can tell everybody in this forum why did you ask something like that. Go on. You can tell it now yourself.
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Message 509 of 562 (134633)
08-17-2004 9:56 AM
Reply to: Message 508 by yxifix
08-17-2004 8:09 AM


Re: So you wanna proof?
yxifix,
So that means Newton's proofs are not 100% proofs as well as you have to search each 100m of Sahara desert (sand) to find out if it is everywhere on the sand the same (maybe absolutely the same sand is harder on the western part then eastern one) ..........hm.... ok.
Correct! A breakthrough!
And this is demagogy once again.
No it isn't. Either my question meets your criteria for demagoguery, or it doesn't. In fact it fails on the first hurdle. I am not attempting to convince you of a false fact at all, I am trying to get an answer (which is the only thing that can be false), which you have evaded for a second time.
My question has no other "substance" than to seek clarification of your position.
Did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence/instance of something was impossible?
And now listen carefully -> I show you where is your demagogy -> Simple answer just to this question would create "UNRELATED FACT that sound in favor of the speaker's agenda". You haven't asked "second part" of a question (although you know it is important) and that is: "If so, have you proved why it is so and when and how that "something" can occur?"
But the question, "did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence/instance of something was impossible?" is:
1/ Very, very RELATED to the issue in hand, it is difficult for it to be more related, given it is attempting to clarify what you are saying. If you didn't say this then why have you been arguing all this time? In fact, answering the question speaks out in favour of your agenda, because it's your position being clarified.
2/ Secondly, it is a question and presents nothing as being a FACT.
Ergo, the question is in no way unrelated, or a fact. It therefore, by definition, cannot be demagoguery. Note that you said "it is demagogy once again", meaning that that question was guilty, in & of itself. If the question isn't guilty of demogoguery, then just answer the thing.
There is no second part to the question, it is complete. What didn't you understand about it? There are follow-on questions that depend on your answer, which is why they are not being asked now. One baby-step at a time. I can't ask them until I have your answer, can I, it obviously depends on your response.
But if you refuse to engage in honest debate, just say so. Alternatively, just answer the question & stop this childish evasion.
Did you, or did you not, claim to have proved that an occurrence/instance of something was impossible?"
Yes or no? Why the equivocation?
Mark
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Message 510 of 562 (134638)
08-17-2004 10:15 AM
Reply to: Message 507 by yxifix
08-17-2004 8:02 AM


Re: turtles all the way down?
Demagogy
Given your previous defintion of demagogy all this really means is that you don't believe something. Demagogy relies in the fact of which I am trying to convinve you being false even if all of my reasoning and all the evidence I provide is sound. Unless you can provide some evidence that the fact is false all yours cries of 'demagogy' add up to nothing more than stuffing your fingers in your ears.
My question was clear, as you can read here:
Yes your question was clear when you restated it in a subsequent post! Your first quote was from my message 501 but the question which was unclear was from post 490 and my initial statements concerning how mixed up that question was were in post 495, you restated the question in your subsequent post.
So in this case you must apply the same on your "evidences" for theory of evolution...
That is exactly what science does all the time. As Crash so clearly pointed out to you proof and evidence are not always synonymous, I already made the distinction between logical or mathematical proofs and the sort of proof which is merely evidence in support of a hypothesis.
So this means... that an experiment with a computer is not a proof but it offers very strong support for a specific hypothesis -> 'intelligence' needed when life was created. That is what you've just said.
Oh, you were doing so well, right up until the point where you stated your specific hypothesis. That isn't a specific hypothesis addressed by your experiment. All your experiment shows is that a computer without human input will not run a program to select a random letter. I'd be quite happy to agree with that finding. As has already been suggested, some of your analogies are pretty weak.
TTFN,
WK

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