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As I said, it makes the prediction that significant events in someone's life is correlated to the position of planets in the constellations at the time. Statistical studies have been done on this subject, some of which reporting positive and statistically significant correlations. A...

Setting up basic conditions doesn't sound like front loading. Let me give you an example from arguably the world's most famous atheist Richard Dawkins and his book 'The Blind Watchmaker'. He gives the example of conducting a random search for a sentence ("METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL") on a...

Maybe I'm wrong, but RNA and structural scaffolding, etc are still examples of tertiary structures...just like DNA. I'm talking about the odds of a random string of AA forming a tertiary structure...which is what I mean by 'functional'. If there are examples of AA sequences that are...

If we can test it, then in a sense it is. Of course if your theory cannot be tested, then it is hardly a theory. Usually people find evidence before they make a claim like this. IOW, they make a claim that has already been tested against evidence. So if you say there are Goblins on the moon...

Actually I first heard this statistic from a producer of a national science program in Canada called 'Quirks and Quarks'. His exact words were 'Did you know that 75% of the studies done on prayer and healing show a positive correlation?' I was surprised myself. I have emailed him to get the...

Many worlds is *by definition* an untestable hypotheses as any detection/communication with other universes is impossible according to the theory. Thats why we refer to it as an 'interpretation'. String theory is theoretically testable, we simply lack the technology to test it. Dawkins appeal...

The irony is that Dawkins himself counters a universe design argument by appealing to the 'Many World' interpretation of quantum theory....which is by definition an untestable position.

Because if the answer is 'No' then a belief in evolution does not automatically bind the Theistic Evolutionist to materialism....which is the premise on which your question is based. As I said before TEs likely don't subscribe to strictly Darwinian evolution...they include non-Darwinian...

The claim isn't for subjective comments on God's 'purpose'...the question is more rudimentary...was the universe designed or not? Remember..Dawkins (as on the right of Atheism as they come) would agree that this IS a valid question to test. I don't have to say anything about the motives of the...

If you are claiming that religious beliefs are mutually exclusive, then you haven't been doing your homework here. I would say that the evidence to day doesn't indicate that the 'God of the Bible' doesn't exist. Rather, it would indicate that the people who wrote the Bible were working through...

The problem is that your question is based on a false premise. Lets take one of the claims here to illustrate. Does evolution (ie what you claim is 'natural processes') account for human consciousness? I'm not asking if evolution may one day account for consciousness or if one believes that...

Generally its agreed that science is any theory that makes a testable prediction. Some will argue, for example, that 'astrology is not a science'. I disagree. It IS a science in the sense that it makes a testable prediction: that significant events (deaths of close family members, birth of...

The analog is valid because all biological proteins are *functional*...meaning they fold up and form tertiary structures. If you were to randomly combine strings of AA's together (assuming they are all LH) the VAST majority of these would be non-functional....just as the vast majority of random...

IOW, evolution=materialism=atheism=self contradictory for theistic evolution. Logical...assuming that the premise that evolution=materialism=atheism is a little more than an assumption on your part. The real trick for you is to make the case for this.

I said it WAS SEVERAL POSTS AGO. And I have not claimed that NS can't get more CSI. But it can also reduce CSI when species go extinct, etc. Blind searching should get you about PAR or less if the functional space is extremely improbable...and it is. Not if the search is blind and the targets...

Does anyone believe these are examples of macroevolution? And is nylonase an enzyme? Yes....and it was produced by altering an existing enzyme by frame shift mutation...and is part of the same class. Give me an example where a series of mutations gives yeilds a change in class from...

If it codes for the same function don't get increased specificity or complexity. Its irrelevant, since odds are that we should never get NS to get those isolated classes given the available time since life appeared...even if we had a replicator in every cubic mm of water in the ocean and 4.5...

The lines are not drawn subjectively, but according to function. Flagellar proteins are VASTLY different (in terms of code sequence) from enzymatic or ribosomal proteins. Thus functional classes are highly isolated...even in the oldest known organisms. No problem...Its just that I have little...

Additional information would have to be put into context. We have a space with 20 letters. Random combinations of those letters may be complex, but uspecified. So "rose" and "rode" would be two pieces of information and adds to the complexity of our space...but what matters in this case is...

No...and nothing I've said indicates this. And they do have to fold up to form tertiary structures in order to be functional. Its doesn't matter if they perform more than one function...they still belong to a functional class. That was my point with hammers and screwdrivers. Sure you can...