[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your post!

We don't know yet, but there are quite a number of people doing research in this area.

I am anxious to stay on top of progress in this area of research. Do you have an internet location to pick up interdisciplinary work in that area?

What sort of evidence is there for "pre programmed adapation capability"? This front-loading idea is a favorite of IDists, but what is a plausible scenario for it? How does it work at the molecular level?

I have paid no particular attention to ID publications concerning microbiology, my interest lies in the mathematics, physics and information theory. Moreover, my adventures in biology have been at your suggestion and by your leads. Naturally, I followed the math/physics/information theory legs.

Getting back to the question at hand though. The evidence of "pre programmed adaptation capability" is in the research on Pax-6.

In support of evolution theory, the capability for eyeness may have been "built in" to the common ancestor by happenstance and passed along to all descendants. This would do injury to the random mutation pillar, but leaves the rest of evolution theory untouched.

In support of intelligent design, the capability would be endowed as an adaptation building block to all primary life forms. And from there it would be passed on as the species evolve. The difference between this and prior is a matter of causation, a mathy subject.

In support of creationism, the capability would be endowed as an adaptation building block to all primary life forms by special creation without evolution at all.

Just my two cents…

[Nebullis]

I have paid no particular attention to ID publications concerning microbiology...

Front-loading is an ID concept regarding evolution.

Moreover, my adventures in biology have been at your suggestion and by your leads. Naturally, I followed the math/physics/information theory legs.

You seem to have a keen interest in evolution. Evolution is biology. Regarding your zeal to apply math or metaphysics to biology, I've merely suggested, with some specific pointers, that you learn something about the field you wish to apply it to.

Do you have an internet location to pick up interdisciplinary work in that area?

PubMed gives public access to the MEDLINE database (NIH). BioMedNet is another database with public access. You can check NCBI, they list a couple of databases. I'm tunneled via an academic computer and I haven't tried accessing scientific literature databases outside of that but you can try the various literature databases you can google and see which ones will give you access.

There are so many journals and articles discussing math in biology (afterall, most of the important questions in biology today are addressed only with mathematical tools). If you really want to learn the application of math to biology, esp. with respect to evolution, the body of work is a large one and there is no need to restrict yourself to a few poor souls who have managed to provide you with a soundbite against evolution.