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"Researchers run signals
through computers that are programmed to recognize many preset patterns.
...After years of receiving apparently meaningless random signals, the
researchers discover a pattern of beats and pauses that corresponds to
the sequence of all the
prime numbers between 2 and 101. When a sequence begins with 2 beats,
then a pause, 3 beats, then a pause . . . and continues all the way to
101 beats, the researchers must infer
the presence of an extraterrestrial intelligence. Here's why. There's nothing
in the laws of physics
that requires radio signals to take one form or the other. The sequence
is therefore contingent
rather than necessary. Also it is a long sequence and therefore complex.
... Finally, it was not just complex but exhibited an independently given
pattern or specific improbable event. Even so, you'll have no reason not
to attribute
it to chance..(that
is, one would not have a reason to give chance the credit, like you have
no reason at the time to leave your home and go away to some other city
or, you receive a phone call, the caller hangs up before you say hello,
it may have been chance, it may not have been, so you have no reason not
to attribute it to chance)
"Intelligence leaves behind
a characteristic trademark or signature, what I call 'specified
complexity'.".(complexity
with a particular purpose, an example of which can be seen in things which
exhibit repetitional.intention,
i.e..fish
eggs produce more fish and the fish produce more eggs)
"In my book
The Design
Inference I argue that specified complexity reliably detects design.
The main criticism of that work to date concerns whether the Darwinian
mechanism of natural selection and random variation is not in fact fully
capable of generating specified complexity. More recently, in No Free
Lunch, I show that undirected natural processes like the Darwinian
mechanism are incapable of generating the specified complexity that exists
in biological organisms. It follows that chance and necessity are insufficient
for the natural sciences and that the natural sciences need to leave room
for design."....from
an article in Nature.(naturalhistory.com),
2002.
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Jonathan
Wells, Ph.D. (molecular and cell biology), University of California,
Berkeley and Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale
University. Books include.Icons
of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution
Is Wrong, Regenery Publishing, 2000. In his book, Wells shows that
DNA.mutations
are mostly harmful and thus would be eliminated by this thing called natural
selection.
"Antibiotic and pesticide
resistance are often cited as evidence that DNA mutations provide the raw
materials for evolution, but they affect only chemical processes. Major
evolutionary changes would require mutations that produce advantageous
anatomical
changes as well.
"Normal fruit flies have
two wings and two 'balancers', tiny structures behind the wings that help
stabilize the insect in flight. In the 1970s geneticists discovered that
a combination of three mutations in a single gene produces flies in which
the balancers develop into normal looking wings. The resulting four-winged
fruit fly is sometimes used to illustrate how mutations can produce the
sorts of anatomical changes that Darwin's theory needs.
"But the extra wings are
not new structures, only duplication of existing ones. Furthermore, the
extra wings lack muscles and are therefore worse than useless. The four
winged fruit fly is severely handicapped, like a small plane with extra
wings dangling from its tail. As in the case with all other anatomical
changes studied so far, those in the four-winged fruit fly cannot provide
raw materials for evolution. In the absence of evidence that natural selection
and random
variations can account for the apparently designed features of living
things, the entire question of design must be reopened. ..."....as
reported in Nature.(naturalhistory.com),
2002.
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Dr. Derek V. Ager, Department
of Geology and Oceanography, University College, Swansea, UK; 'The nature
of the fossil record', Proceedings of the Geologists Association
vol. 87 (2) 1976, p.132.."It
must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned
as a student, from Trueman's 'Ostrea/Gryphaea' to Carruthers' 'Zaphrentis
delanouei', have now been 'debunked'. Similarly, my own experience of more
than twenty years looking for evolutionary lineages among the Mesozoic
Brachiopoda has proved them equally elusive.
"We all know that many apparent
evolutionary bursts are nothing more than brainstorms on the part of particular
paleontologists.
One splitter in a library can do far more than millions of years of genetic.mutation."
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Hubert P. Yockey, Army Pulse
Radiation Facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA, 'A calculation
of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by information
theory',.Journal
of Theoretical Biology, vol. 67, 1977, p. 396.."One
must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario
describing the genesis of life on Earth by chance and natural causes which
can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not yet been written."
