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To: general_re
Well, This ---

It opens up the possibility of addressing scientifically rather than ideologically the central issue so hotly contested by fundamentalists on both sides of the Creationist-Darwinist debate: Is there any guiding intelligence at work in the origin of species displaying exquisite adaptations that range from lambda prophage repression and the Krebs cycle through the mitotic apparatus and the eye to the immune system, mimicry, and social organization?

certainly does not indicate this ---

Shapiro rejects creationist, non-naturalistic explanations for the origins of life

considering your definition of creationist.

1,021 posted on 12/03/2002 10:07:46 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
Who is mind-reading now? From the fact that he suggests that an answer is now possible, you are able to infer precisely what that answer is for him?

What significance does an emerging interface between biology and information science hold for thinking about evolution? It opens up the possibility of addressing scientifically rather than ideologically the central issue so hotly contested by fundamentalists on both sides of the Creationist-Darwinist debate: Is there any guiding intelligence at work in the origin of species displaying exquisite adaptations that range from lambda prophage repression and the Krebs cycle through the mitotic apparatus and the eye to the immune system, mimicry, and social organization? Borrowing concepts from information science, new schools of evolutionists can begin to rephrase virtually intractable global questions in terms amenable to computer modelling and experimentation. We can speculate what some of these more manageable questions might be: How can molecular control circuits be combined to direct the expression of novel traits? Do genomes display characteristic system architectures that allow us to predict phenotypic consequences when we rearrange DNA sequence components? Do signal transduction networks contribute functional information as they regulate the action of natural genetic engineering hardware?

In which of those "manageable questions" do you find non-naturalistic explanations lurking?

1,023 posted on 12/03/2002 10:19:54 PM PST by general_re
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