[manwiththehands]

Thornton and his co-investigators used computational methods ...

I can make a computer say anything I want it to say.

"Computational methods". Programs don't write themselves. And this isn't the first time pro-evo's tried to foist computer "simulations" to "prove" evolution.

Science is the observation and measurement of phenomenon. Or at least that's what I learned in JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL science class.

Leave computer simulations to Michael Crichton when he writes his next novel.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

" Science is the observation and measurement of phenomenon."

That automatically rules out ID.

[Right Wing Professor]

Science is the observation and measurement of phenomenon. Or at least that's what I learned in JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL science class.

Too bad you seem to have stopped learning in junior high.

Computer calculations are indispensable in most fields of science these days.

[ndt]

"Programs don't write themselves."

Actually some do. Guess what this successful method of solving problems was inspired by?

[Ichneumon]

[Thornton and his co-investigators used computational methods ...]

I can make a computer say anything I want it to say.

Sure, if you're dishonest. Are you dishonest?

The researchers, on the other hand, were actually trying to get valid results out of the computers, and thus were able to get them.

"Computational methods". Programs don't write themselves.

They can, actually.

And this isn't the first time pro-evo's tried to foist computer "simulations" to "prove" evolution.

These were not "simulations", they were analysis of the real-world data, and if you have a specific objection to the actual computer models used to validate evolution, you might want to state it now, instead of just casting obnoxious and slanderous aspersions in general.