Posted on October 9 at 6:09 a.m.Suggest removal

Dio,

"Also you should define what you mean by "complexity" or "specified complexity". So far your point makes no sense. The proof?"

Gladly. You can take the alphabet's 26 letters and combine them in numerous was to make a complex configuration of letters. But only a letter structure like yours, which introduces intelligence can take the letters and make a coherent sentence. Now the structure of the sentence has specified complexity. Proteins have specified complexity as they can only be created from specified amino acids. Proteins are created with information and information comes from? Can we say intelligence?

The proof. Whenever you find specified complexity it is immediately recognizable as the product of intelligence.

Let me ask you this question. How do you know that Mt. Rushmore was
created by intelligence rather than carved out by millions of years of natural forces working on the mountain?

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Posted on October 8 at 10:24 p.m.Suggest removal

Pearljamrun,

Check out the reviews on Amazon of Stephen Meyers' Signature In The Cell.

WOW!

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Posted on October 8 at 10:22 p.m.Suggest removal

Dio,

Quoting from your earlier post, "Information is not the product of intelligence."

....on which planet?

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Posted on October 6 at 12:18 p.m.Suggest removal

Dio,

Specified complexity does require intelligence.

Complexity: yihdaeyyaeydhvdvdldjj

Specified Complexity: "Complexity needs no intent. Just open an organic chemistry book."

Big difference, my friend. Specified complexity does require intent and the information in the nucleus of each cell is specified, instructing the cell to build proteins from amino acids.

No. 3 in your previous post needs a little work.

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Posted on October 2 at 8:52 p.m.Suggest removal

Hello pearjamrun,

Perhaps we can use dio's response to test the two theories. Let's see, was the specific information in dio's response created by:

A. An intelligent agent using a 26 letter code, or

B. Letters randomly chosen through a process that had no specific intent, but just happened to produce the complexity observed?

Methinks dio has proven that information is the product of intelligence.

Kinda what Stephen Meyer says we observe in cells, where information creation, storage, retrieval, and processing is just a tad bit more complex than dio's response, as each cell contains enough specific information to fill 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

You rock, pearljamrun... and so do you, dio, for helping us get to the bottom of this mystery!

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Posted on September 30 at 9:05 p.m.Suggest removal

Hmmm....

I have Darwinian evolution telling me that the complex information systems operating in living cells were created by random mutations filtered by natural selection. The complexity of the information only appears to be intelligently designed, design is an illusion.

Intelligent Design argues that the information systems in living cells, which create, store, and process digital information are the result of an intelligent agent because all evidence points to intelligence as source of information.

If I look at each response to this Opinion, methinks intelligence used a 26 letter code to specify the information every time.

I think I know which argument is best supported here.

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Posted on September 30 at 6:07 a.m.Suggest removal

Thanks for bringing Stephen Meyer to the campus for the lecture.

I have been interested in these arguments for 30 years and it was worth the 4 hour drive from Borger, Texas to listen to Dr. Meyer's position. I would much rather evaluate the evidence myself and decide whether the arguments are valid than to have someone decide the issue for me.

ID is gaining support among many scientists because information creation, storage, retrieval, and processing within each living cell screams for an intelligent agent.

Frankly, the idea that these information systems are the result of random mutations filtered by natural selection is laughable.

Here are about 1,000 scientists who also doubt the efficacy of the Darwinian mechanism to bring these systems into existence.

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/view...

Thanks, O.U., for the lecture!

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