Dimensio wrote:
The logical fallacy of "appeal to authority" involves dropping a "famous" name whose opinion matches your own even when the person in question is not an expert in the field in question; an example would be citing Issac Newton -- a physicist -- in an argument about biology.
RussP replies:
You got me thinking, and a bell went off in my head. Suddenly it all became clear.
Most biologists have not a clue about information theory -- or anything mathematical, for that matter. That explains why they reject Spetner's arguments without understanding them. They know all the biological jargon, but they don't understand the information structure behind it.
That's why I still haven't got an answer to the basic question of what is the ratio of harmful to beneficial mutations. Apparently nobody on this thread has the slightest clue about what it is for any species at any time under any circumstances. Nor did Dawkins bother to discuss it in his "Watchmaker" book.
Yet we are supposed to take their word for it that natural selection of random mutations can produce complex life forms. The evolutionists don't understand the problem because they know nothing about information theory or the mathematical and probabilistic concepts behind it.
The emperor has no clothes.