Group On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:53:31 -0000, paulcanagnostopoulos wrote Re: Origins of fx174: [...] ... PA>No it isn't. The default option is to do more research....
... PK: Until one can demonstrate that a living organism can exist that a)relies solely on RNA for protein encoding and replication functions and b) is able to...
Hi Jim! ... This raised some questions in my mind. Question One: Does this mean you want to exclude every intimation of "supernatural" from "the science...
... This is more of the circular philosophy expressed in the grossly misleading term "overpopulation". What led to "the creation of mega-cities" was not...
Group Here are brief excerpts from today's science news articles, as well as some older ones, in rough order of importance. My comments are in square brackets....
... interpreting "naturalistic" to mean "without the involvement of sentient beings." ... them. ... more ... categories of ... I am not excluding any...
... You may be aware of it, but you aren't paying attention. They are addressing the question of how the extant protein synthesis system arose. Perhaps by...
... specify ... so ... When one of the following occurs: 1. Evidence appears for the existence of a supernatural designer who clearly had a hand in the origin...
... of ... Unless and until someone can explain how the supernatural is relevant to science, yes. ... science ... No. ... philosophy ... I'm not sure. Such as?...
... PK: No. I mean an explanation for the assumption that thousands of nucleotide sequences randomly form in just the right sequential order to allow for ...
... No one makes your assumption, so there are no papers on the subject, except by IDers. No one is worried about which "natural forces" would cause ...
... PK: Which assumption? That nucleotides form randomly or as a result of an identifiable natural causes? Or do you have a third option? ... PK: Really?...
PK: This e-mail from the cited source updates the continued developments caused by a published article of an ID advocate. BREAKPOINT with Charles Colson ... A...
Group On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 02:34:51 -0800 (PST), Paul wrote ... As I said, the only difference between RNA and DNA (apart from their normal single and double...
From: "Stephen E. Jones" <sejones@...> ... Given all this evidence, what may be inferred about this first living organism? IMO to say that the first...
PK>When prebiotic theories are unable to even theoretically specify precise forces pushing in the direction of life and why this is so then randomness is the...
... PK: Disease is essentially a malfunction within an organism. When disease afflicts an organism we have a reference frame constituting what normal function...
... You misunderstand. The topic here is causes: causes of initial forms of life, causes of diseases. We assume that there are naturalistic causes of...
... PK: I'm afraid you misunderstand. Many, many diseases have been documented as to their cause. A scientific case can be made for verifiable natural causes...
... The assumption that nucleotides form randomly "in just the right sequential order." ... They think it evolved from something more primitive. ~~ Paul...
... Then abiogenesis is in a state similar to disease back when its causes were unknown and people assumed it was the Devil or an evil spirit inhabiting the...
... PK: Either the required nucleotides form in the sequential order needed to encode a functional protein or they do not. Hundreds of nucleotides are...
... PK: No it is not in a comparable situation. Researchers have been working for decades without answers to basic questions. It is more a question of having...
Group Here is a defence of ID by mathematician/philosopher David Berlinski in The Daily Californian, Berkeley University student paper, against an attack on ID...
AN (copy to CED) On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 23:53:50 +0100, AN wrote: Thanks for your message. As is my long-standing practice, when I receive a private message on a...
Group Here is an *amazing* article to be published on a website as committed to the `Copernican' principle of mediocrity as SPACE.com is: "Though researchers...
Group On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 00:47:14 -0000, paulcanagnostopoulos wrote Re: Origins of fx174: [...] ... PA>They think it evolved from something more primitive. ...
