Wesley R. Elsberry
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Joined: May 2002
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Gordon Mullings just can't say, "I got it wrong," even when it is patently obvious to anybody that he was wrong, flagrantly and belligerently. Well, anybody who doesn't have a religious precommitment to IDC.
It's worth repeating what I said back around the time the 1987 video footage came to light:
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The video demonstrates that the “weasel” program used by Dawkins was not latching, no source code is needed to confirm that. The religious antievolutionists have themselves latched onto the utterly demented notion that Dawkins used a different “latching” program for “weasel” output in “The Blind Watchmaker” and “New Scientist” in 1986 than in the 1987 video. Why is it demented? First, because “latching” is completely unlike the biology, and Dawkins is an accomplished biologist. Second, because the program Dawkins obviously did use in the video documentary about his book “The Blind Watchmaker” obviously doesn’t use latching. Third, because the math says that for reasonable population sizes and mutation rates, one doesn’t expect to see the best candidates from successive generations lose correct characters. Fourth, because Dawkins himself has said that he didn’t do anything of the sort.
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All of that makes sense... something Gordon Mullings can't bring himself to do on this topic.
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"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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