Kinda recall that we are not supposed to post comments on the links here?
If not sorry, not to do again.
I did see most of it today. Thanks.
Scott said that “pattern”, “process” and common descent(ancestry) are empirics derived from three different types”” of data. Pattern and process were twins that were being discussed in contradistinction to pattern, process and behavior and appeared as “buzz” sounds, evolution just was, in the 80s. Scott had submerged “descent from a common ancestor” under behavior within Kant’s difference of knowledge ex datis or ex principiis.
How else could it be that Dembski wanted ID to be an alternative to Kirsher and Gerhart who wrote from the book Dembski got on the way to the debate,
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“Though modern scientists may have questioned the completeness of the theory of evolution, few believed that the fundamentalprinciples(bold added) of variation and selection would not in the end explain the diversity of life. Certain groups, however, particularly active in the United States, have exaggerated and fabricated weaknesses . (The Plausibility of Life page 264)”
Dembski invoked the difference of private and public (data) instead. This is divided by Kant in “The Metaphysical Elements of Justice”. No one has updated the legislative angle of Kant’s individualistic work given Russell’s discussions of when and when not an object can be in one or more places at the same time (relevant to “explain the diversity of life” (“a distinction which divides entities into three classes (a) those which are not in any place, (b) those which are in one place at one time, but never in more than one, (c) those which are in many places at once. “ “Logic and Knowledge page 106).
So Scott by allowing each biologist to pronate a different view of pattern or process and possess by specialty different collected/collectable data (levels) have the same public datum of descent with modification but were supposed to be privy to different private data where instead of the existence of the different types of data there had to be a KNOWLEDGE from the principle.
That is the only way she can sustain that there is no contention over the existence of form-making and translation in space as ONE whole. There can be but there need not be in principle. Dembski was mistaken to invert the principle and data if he did so ( I did not listen to is whole approach) because it is the pattern(empirical) and process(rational or a posteriori or simply remembered) that speaks for the form of the descent but whether it is common or not(multiple origins vs separate orgins of life vs separate special creations, finite or infinite) no current analysis of the data can ensure. He may have remained wholly rational but then pattern may falsify his claim.
We all shape our own personal horizons. There may be different series of data to divide discussion of evolutionary concepts but this is not what Scott said. Will Provine for instance thought in the 71 that population genetics theory was intriguing with potential but by 2001( in his new preface to his book on the History of Population Genetics) felt it an impediment to learning. If data series had been developed he would have had no reason to feel this. By 87 Levin and Kaufmann wrote it all off to “numerical methods”. I could not find anyone even thinking it by then.
Symbolic Logic unfortunately has become less subtle rather than more and talking heads rule the day.