University of Toronto Conference: The Wise Scientist

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   bornagain77 says:

   January 4, 2012 at 6:17 am

   Excellent article Dr. Hunter,,,, Of related note you may appreciate this recent article:

   Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness – Talbott – Fall 2011
   Excerpt: The situation calls to mind a widely circulated cartoon by Sidney Harris, which shows two scientists in front of a blackboard on which a body of theory has been traced out with the usual tangle of symbols, arrows, equations, and so on. But there’s a gap in the reasoning at one point, filled by the words, “Then a miracle occurs.” And the one scientist is saying to the other, “I think you should be more explicit here in step two.”
   In the case of evolution, I picture Dennett and Dawkins filling the blackboard with their vivid descriptions of living, highly regulated, coordinated, integrated, and intensely meaningful biological processes, and then inserting a small, mysterious gap in the middle, along with the words, “Here something random occurs.”
   This “something random” looks every bit as wishful as the appeal to a miracle. It is the central miracle in a gospel of meaninglessness, a “Randomness of the gaps,” demanding an extraordinarily blind faith. At the very least, we have a right to ask, “Can you be a little more explicit here?”
   http://www.thenewatlantis.com/.....randomness

   further note:

   The End Of Materialism? – Dr. Bruce Gordon
   * In the multiverse, anything can happen for no reason at all.
   * In other words, the materialist is forced to believe in random miracles as a explanatory principle.
   * In a Theistic universe, nothing happens without a reason. Miracles are therefore intelligently directed deviations from divinely maintained regularities, and are thus expressions of rational purpose.
   * Scientific materialism is (therefore) epistemically self defeating: it makes scientific rationality impossible.
   — The Absurdity of Inflation, String Theory & The Multiverse – Dr. Bruce Gordon – video
   http://vimeo.com/34468027

   Revisiting the Central Dogma in the 21st Century – James A. Shapiro – 2009
   Excerpt Page 12: Genetic change is almost always the result of cellular action on the genome. These natural processes are analogous to human genetic engineering,,, (Page 14) Genome change arises as a consequence of natural genetic engineering, not from accidents.,,, Thus, we expect to see genome change occurring in response to different stimuli (Table 1) and operating nonrandomly throughout the genome, guided by various types of intermolecular contacts (Table 1 of Ref. 112).
   http://shapiro.bsd.uchicago.ed.....0Dogma.pdf

   Super Massive Blackholes – The neo-Darwinian ultimate ‘god of entropic randomness’ which can create all things (that is if you are a ‘true believer’ in Darwin)
   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fxhJEGNeEQ_sn4ngQWmeBt1YuyOs8AQcUrzBRo7wISw/edit?hl=en_US

   “But why was the big bang so precisely organized, whereas the big crunch (or the singularities in black holes) would be expected to be totally chaotic? It would appear that this question can be phrased in terms of the behaviour of the WEYL part of the space-time curvature at space-time singularities. What we appear to find is that there is a constraint WEYL = 0 (or something very like this) at initial space-time singularities-but not at final singularities-and this seems to be what confines the Creator’s choice to this very tiny region of phase space.”
   Roger Penrose – How Special Was The Big Bang?

   song:

   Heather Williams – Hallelujah – Lyrics
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX2uM0L3Y1A