N.Wells
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Following on from posts by Sparc, Socle, and Woodbine on the Uncommonly Dense thread:
From http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelli....extbook
About Eric Postrada, the author of the book just mentioned, according to his autobiography at Amazon, at http://www.amazon.com/Edgar-P...._pel_1: | Quote | | Edgar A. Postrado was born in the Philippines (1966) with civil Engineering Degree from National University, Manila. He discovered: the real Intelligent Design, the real "intelligence" and its elusive nature, discoverer and promoter of Biological Interrelation or Interrelation Theory (replacement to the Theory of Evolution), promoter of the new powerful categorization method in naturalistic science, discoverer of the new and testable Theory of Intelligence, and solver or giver to some of the most unsolved mysteries in naturalistic science in origin's topic, like physics, biology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, religion etc. |
He has actually published a series of books in the last year, including:
The New Intelligent Design, Turning The Scientific World Upside Down
Biology Of Intelligent Design
Physics of Intelligent Design
Philosophy Of Intelligent Design
Atheism and Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design Explains Life's Difficult Questions
Psychology Of Intelligent Design
Eric explained, | Quote | | This is my public report to scientific community and to the world about my new discoveries in real intelligence and real Intelligent Design. This is probably an unconventional way of publishing scientific discoveries instead of peer-reviews in scientific journals. Though I tried submitting some articles twice and failed but most of the contents of his book were adversarially reviewed and severely criticized in many online scientific discussion forums by many resident scientists on that forums. Since the new discoveries are still unbeaten and unrefuted, thus, I have more confidence that my new discoveries are scientifically correct and sound, thus, I am publishing them here in this book. A book is a very logical answer for me to explain all of the details of my new discoveries. Thank you. |
So, Gary, this raises a whole series of interesting questions regarding your own work.
First, you have insisted that since you have offered an "improved" version of ID, all subsequent usage of the phrase "Intelligent Design" must incorporate your version of intelligent design or it is wrong. Since Edgar's version is more recent than yours (AND is even broader in scope than yours*, AND is actually published in book form, even if that is self-published), doesn't that mean that your version is now wrong because it doesn't incorporate all his ideas?
Second, you incessantly insist that since you have some up with a purportedly newer and more expansive explanation than standard evolutionary theory that it is now the responsibility of all scientists in the vicinity to drop what they are doing and work on your theory, both improving it, putting it into better English, and thinking up and running tests for it, does it not follow that you should now set aside all your own rubbish and get to work on Edgar's ideas?
Third, since Edgar writes in somewhat the same way that you do and since you rarely seem to understand regularly-written stuff given the frequency that you mangle what people write, do you find Edgar's writings easier to understand or harder to understand than regular prose?
I can't wait to hear your reaction to this newer and purportedly better version of ID.
Also, what's your advice to poor old Bob Berenz, as you still haven't gotten around to addressing the issues that he raises?
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*In case you doubt that his version of ID is more expansive than yours (broad though yours is), here is Edgar on the contributions that his version makes to physics alone: | Quote | | The world needs a new science new and explanations. This is it! This is the book that will settle most, if not all, unsolved mysteries in Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Astronomy, Cosmology and their related fields, as seen from the side of Intelligent Design and from reality. The Intelligent Design that you will be reading here, that will explain many unsolved mysteries in Physics, is the new Intelligent Design that is too far different from the old Intelligent Design (ID). The big difference is that the old ID has no definition of the real intelligence and no categorization method to differentiate between a naturally made object (naturen) to intelligently designed object (intellen). (The old ID talks about “complexity”, “information”, “specified complexity”, “irreducible complexity” and “complex specified information” and the old ID did not even touch “intelligence”). |
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(out standing in his field)
