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To: papertyger

The folks who get complexity theory wrong when applying it to evolutionary biology are supposedly engaged in science — or at least philosophy of science — not promulgating popular culture, and yes, they are appealing to notions properly formalized by Kolmogorov.


7 posted on 06/06/2013 7:45:17 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: The_Reader_David
“...are supposedly engaged in science ..”

Are you saying you cannot question a theory?? or adapt it to your own???
scientist do this often.

Is criticizing a theory unacceptable?/ That is what theory is about...to be tested.

8 posted on 06/06/2013 8:35:40 AM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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To: The_Reader_David
The folks who get complexity theory wrong when applying it to evolutionary biology are supposedly engaged in science ,,,,

Please cite your sources for claiming Behe or any other advocate of Intelligent Design were applying "complexity theory" to "evolutionary biology" rather than coining a descriptive term for a pedestrian concept.

Do you have a better term for Behe's signature concept outlined in "Darwin's Black Box?"

9 posted on 06/06/2013 8:36:54 AM PDT by papertyger (Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be broken....)
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To: The_Reader_David; papertyger

The statistically determined total improbability of evolution certainly has nothing to do with Kolmogorov.

Impossible is a real world state.


36 posted on 06/06/2013 1:40:57 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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