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To: Physicist
Mathematics is replete with eternal truths.

I can dig it. Isn't that what Dembski is driving at in his work - some way of getting at or describing "eternal truths" mathematically, in his case regarding "design"?

337 posted on 04/19/2006 1:30:32 PM PDT by KMJames
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To: KMJames
Isn't that what Dembski is driving at in his work - some way of getting at or describing "eternal truths" mathematically, in his case regarding "design"?

One of the fundamental claims of the IDers is that it's possible to construct mathematical tests that distinguish between designed things and natural things. I haven't ever seen such a thing, but if someday somebody comes up with such a test, I'll be glad to consider it. But right now I have no reason to believe that such a test is possible. All I know is that Dembski, et al. want one, and that they expect it to tell them that organisms are designed and not natural.

342 posted on 04/19/2006 1:44:25 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: KMJames
Isn't that what Dembski is driving at in his work

Nah. Dembski's "work" is getting rich off of suckers.

447 posted on 04/19/2006 7:47:10 PM PDT by RightWingNilla
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