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Harvard Origin of Life Project: An ID Prediction

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See here for more about the Harvard Origin of Life project.

In a nutshell they are setting out to demonstrate how DNA-based life could have originated from undirected interplay of chemicals.

If ID is true then it predicts the Harvard project will fail. This is based on the ID hypothesis that the complex patterns found in the basic machinery of life are too complex to come about without intelligent guidance.

Now if I may be so bold as to ask that ID theorists be allowed to make predictions based upon their own theory, and detractors are gracious enough to let us make our own predictions, then I don’t want to hear any more nonsense about ID making no predictions. This is a prediction. It will play out soon enough. Let the chips fall where they may.

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Have a look-see here: http://www.physorg.com/news84551202.htmlPaV
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“I think they will succeed… at producing a complex tautology. A billion dollars should be enough to confuse a lot of people into THINKING they came up with something. That is what I am worried about.” Me too Collin. I see what all the money that’s been poured into Darwin’s pocket has done: still no hard science to back-up the theory, but instead we have a boatload of scientific sounding propaganda and a state-sponsored “religion” in materialism. I’m bracing myself for the “big day” when Harvard announces to the world that the mystery of OOL has been solved so score one for Darwin and the blind watchmaker. When read, the announcement will be peppered with phrases such as “must have”, “we suppose”, and “could have happened” I’m guessing this announcement will be made shortly after some type of big discovery that favors ID becomes public.shaner74
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Collin I understand your worry. I suggested in the past that, in order to keep them honest, qualified people from the ID side be given advisory positions in formulating metrics by which success or failure would be judged.DaveScot
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I think they will succeed... at producing a complex tautology. A billion dollars should be enough to confuse a lot of people into THINKING they came up with something. That is what I am worried about.Collin
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Gil, I get your point. They'd have a better chance of randomly evolving mice that eat garbage and pee high octane gasoline.DaveScot
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I’ll stick my neck out and make a prediction: The Harvard origin of life project has the same chance of success in demonstrating how DNA-based life originated from the undirected interplay of chemicals as it would in producing the world’s first perpetual-motion machine. In the latter case the law of conservation of energy won’t permit success. In the former case the laws of chemistry, physics and probability won’t permit success, absent intelligent intervention and engineering.GilDodgen
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Personally, I'd like to see the OOL project funded with a billion dollars per year for ten years and if progress is slow then double it. I don't want any lame excuses for their failure. If we can afford to spend a billion dollars a day in Iraq I think we can afford to spend a billion dollars a year to settle a question of such import to so very many that has been hotly debated since time immemorial.DaveScot
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