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To: ClearCase_guy
Tpical Rebuttal sequence:

Tpical shove fingers in ears, run in place,shout LA LA LA Allah UAkbar!

I labored through that paper which was at least well-written. It is a review article and has the guts to expose the writers bias which is a good thing.

So although I am unfamiliar with this journal I can accept that this review article may have passed peer review.

Science, Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, etc., or other first-tier journals would be more demanding of a review article but thats beside the point.

What is note-worthy is the slide into teleology that this paper descends. When "scientists" adopt an outlook that emerging biological systems seems to be converging on similar structural patterns and that this is an indication of "purpose", they have jettisoned all readers who are hoping for maintenance of objectivity.

When otherwise bright folks throw up their arms and declare "its too complex for me to understand therefore it must be due to a magician inthe sky" others more grounded in reason have to shrug and say buh bye.

3 posted on 10/01/2005 7:00:46 AM PDT by corkoman (Overhyped)
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To: corkoman
I'd say you demonstrate the following steps in the sequence: 2-5.

Nice job!

4 posted on 10/01/2005 7:05:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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