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To: sirchtruth
The lecture I recommended to you in #387, above:

"For Making Genetic Networks Operate Robustly, Unintelligent Non-design Suffices," by Garrett Odell. It is a program on the Science Forum of the Research Channel (Dish Network Channel 9400). The original lecture was 2006, at the University of Washington.

is online here.
419 posted on 06/04/2007 5:51:09 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman
Thanks for sharing that! I really did not understand most of what Odell was trying to imply (I just don't have enough knowledge of science) although I was really trying to grap the "transitor radio" design concept and how he was using that as an example.

It made me realize the "NETWORK" operates the process. However, Odell never once answers his own question about "How" a cell knows. If he answered it, I never got it. When he uses the phrase, "working in a mysterious way" it's a dead give away. His conclusion about what makes the design is pure conjecture because he never concludes HOW the Robust patterns form in the first place! He goes around in circles about this and interjects his "opinions" about the process.

Odell's explanation made me realize even more how complex life and design are which strengthens the evidence towards intellegent design and why science must be honest about it's precepts and conclusions. Science must continue to work to understand this complexity of life and stop thinking certain answers are not viable based on turning a blind eye to a mountian of evidence, or just because it would involve investigating an invisible world.

I can however, appreciate his work.

449 posted on 06/05/2007 4:25:19 PM PDT by sirchtruth (No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
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