In answering yet another round of G’s talking points on design theory and those of us who advocate it, I have outlined a summary of design thinking and its links onward to debates on theology,  that I think is worth being  somewhat adapted, expanded and headlined. With your indulgence: _______________ >> The epistemological warrant for origins science is no mystery, as Meyer and others have summarised. {Let me clip from an earlier post  in the same thread: Let me give you an example of a genuine test (reported in Wiki’s article on the Infinite Monkeys theorem), on very easy terms, random document generation, as I have cited many times: One computer program run by Dan Oliver of Scottsdale, Arizona, according Read More ›

It is remotely possible that Joel Lehman’s and Kenneth Stanley’s new paper on evolvability might have some useful, practical application. Perhaps it could help in designing better self-learning systems. Or maybe it could lead to improved training software. I certainly hope it leads to something useful because I paid for it—me and my fellow taxpayers. Unfortunately the paper appears to be yet another waste of taxpayer’s hard earned money in support of the unscientific, religiously-driven belief that the entire world of biology, and everything else for that matter, arose by itself.  Read more

A new paper in Nature is reporting that “Altogether, in a [Saccharomyces] genome containing only 6,000 open reading frames (ORFs), we detected over 1.88 million unique transcript isoforms (TIFs) (or 776,874 supported by at least two sequencing reads…).” They detected 26 major TIFs (mTIFs) and 48 TIFs in total per open reading frame, and “estimate a maximum of 100 mTIFs (or 500 TIFs) per gene.” And you thought yeast was simple? Read the paper for yourself here.