Charles Marshall – Uncommon Descent

A contradiction in Charles Marshall’s “white smoker” origin-of-life argument?

Paul Nelson: … unless I misunderstand (always a live possibility), we’re back to postulating a “freak environment,” meaning the OOL explanation is a one-off event after all. The chemical determinism of hundreds of thousands, or millions of alkaline chimneys operating in parallel disappears, and we’re back to one very lucky setting.

horizontal gene transfer Intelligent Design Origin Of Life

New origin of life thesis: Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) wasn’t actually a single cell

Marshall favors horizontal gene transfer as a key method of early development because ancestor–descendant evolution is a “very slow” (42:25) evolutionary process. HGT among multiple independent lineages, by contrast, allows a “vast exchange of information,” thus sharing innovations and leading to faster development. Okay. And in the midst of all that, Dawkins’s Selfish Gene got lost in a crowd somewhere and was never heard from again.

bornagain77 Jerry: "I would be interested what is the latest, not from an ID perspective but from an energy metabolism one."... – If two snowflakes are identical, does...
Origenes CR In #128 you are misquoting me. And you follow up with: Thank Zeus we’re not limited to whatever Origenes... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist “..trying to come up with an explanation of the underlying objective reality that explains what all of the sources say.”... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist @KF Already addressed here: https://conjecturesandrefutations.com/2013/07/ Did you get those quotes from Dykes? – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist For example, when I get a non-technical report of some application, API or system providing a "wrong result", I ask... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
kairosfocus CR, kindly note the problems in the wider cite, not to mention my own in extenso cite from the preface... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
kairosfocus L&FP, 68: Cognitive Dissonance and fallacies of projection etc – L&FP, 68: Cognitive Dissonance and fallacies...
critical rationalist @Origenes Second, what counts is not whether any particular piece of information we get is flawed. Rather, what matters is... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
Querius Upright BiPed @40, While Alan Fox has posted numerous critical comments on other topics, it looks like he's been hiding... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
Origenes CR It is not true that the fact that our senses are theory-laden implies that we are cut off from... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist KF's on Willard vs Popper. Other clips from Popper cannot even be rescued to that extent: Popper: “Precision and certainty... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
jerry I’m placing this argument here because it is relevant to the assertion that ID per se does not have a... – A review of Nicholas Spencer’s Magisteria:...
kairosfocus Origenes, solid question. I suspect, that in the ideas climate of 1962, with scientism dominant, Popper sounded very different from... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
jerry They had a discussion on CRT at a school board meeting in Temecula, California recently. A black professor presented the... – Darwin a slavery abolitionist? Aw, come...
critical rationalist @Origenes: More wack-a-mole? See #85 and #112. Bonus: The logic of experimental tests, particularly of Everettian quantum theory See 2.... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
Origenes CR @ Given that criticisms are mere unjustifiable conjectures and tests are not neutrally interpretable due to our untrustworthy senses... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist CR, it is clear that something is very wrong with the frame we are seeing from Popper et al. Only... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist @Origenes How then do you establish the validity of a specific criticism or test? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=folTvNDL08A So, being proved wrong by... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
kairosfocus CR, it is clear that something is very wrong with the frame we are seeing from Popper et al. Only... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
critical rationalist This reflects the last 60 years of debates and has the major advantages of recognising ordinary people, rejecting selective or... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...
kairosfocus PM1, yes, it is arguable that the original sense of justified included issues of objective warrant. But over the past... – L&FP, 67: So-called "critical rationalism" and...