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Author Topic:   Recent paper with an ID spin? Abel and Trevors (2005).
Halbwertszeit
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Message 29 of 85 (371042)
12-19-2006 11:11 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by Wounded King
11-02-2006 9:50 AM


Re: Abel and Trevors at it again
I have seen a citation of that paper on the website of a German ID proponent. I have seen him citing papers immediately after Dembski cited them. And after googeling the title of the paper I found it: Archives – Uncommon Descent
So the paper is an ID paper. Can anybody say something about the journal?
According to the Dembski blog the paper gives a reference to Dawkins:
[38] Dawkins R. Climbing mount impossible. 1996
Well Dawkins did not write this book, did he?
Also it seems that it is quite improbable that a 'real' scientific article cites so many popular science books.
And the article criticises Prigogine by saying:
The title of Nicolis and Prigogine’s earlier book [86] was incorrect in the title, “Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Systems”: and correct in the subtitle, “From Dissipative Structures to Order Through Fluctuations”.
And on Dembskis blog they also quote the article saying
'Anti-informationists often appeal to epigenetic factors, prions, self-replicating peptides, regulatory proteins and small RNAs to argue life is merely physical without need of formal genetic algorithmic control mechanisms.'
Anti-informationists ??
And the list of keywords for that article seems like a collection of fancy buzzwords. As if someone who does not really understand the issue want to impress some other people. Reminds me of Sokal.
But it seems that ID has achieved to get a propaganda article through the peer review. Or at least some form of peer review.

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Halbwertszeit
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Message 31 of 85 (371110)
12-20-2006 9:24 AM
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12-20-2006 2:09 AM


Re: Abel and Trevors at it again
No, but he did write 'Climbing Mount improbable'
Yes of course. That was a rethorical question.
And after reading the

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