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(Permalink) Posted: April 06 2011,02:41   

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Neal Tedford on scientific procedures:

     
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As a comparison Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel are usually careful to perform their tests by setting up their experiments as equal to the original claim as possible. They then test their experiment quite thoroughly. Evolutionary theory would not stand up to this kind of scrutiny.


Waterloo!!!!!

I think this would make an excellent Mythbusters episode.  First, the build team constructs a duplicate prehistoric earth (probably they'd do a scale model first, just for proof of concept, before scaling up to a full-size replica).  Then, after a perhaps a billion years, rendered in dramatic time-lapse photography, we get to see whether the development of life is confirmed, plausible, or totally busted.  After which Jamie and Adam find some pretext for blowing the whole thing to smitheens, which is always the best part.

Perhaps they'll have to demolish it to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.

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(Permalink) Posted: April 06 2011,03:39   

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Neal Tedford on scientific procedures:

 
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As a comparison Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel are usually careful to perform their tests by setting up their experiments as equal to the original claim as possible. They then test their experiment quite thoroughly. Evolutionary theory would not stand up to this kind of scrutiny.


Waterloo!!!!!

Interesting given that one of the Mythbusters is a skeptic who has on occasion said that ID/Creationism is a load of crap.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: April 06 2011,10:37   

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Interesting given that one of the Mythbusters is a skeptic who has on occasion said that ID/Creationism is a load of crap.

I think it's clear they're all skeptics (though they're not all atheists as well), it's just that Adam Savage, as per his personality, actually attends skeptic events and likes to talk about it.  It's funny, because he did say this at one of those events back in 2007:

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My goal this year is to prove natural selection on the show. It's gonna take a while, it's gonna be very hard to make it fascinating on film in the context of our narrative structure, but I figure screw it. The sky's the limit. Let's do natural selection. I'm sick of fifty percent of this country thinking creationism is reasonable. It's appalling. And I have the unique ability, maybe, to sell this idea to Discovery, and they'll, they might allow me to do it, and I'm gonna try as hard as I can.


A year later he said it wasn't looking likely to ever happen. Which I find kind of strange, since Discovery has no problem talking about evolution in who-knows-how-many hours of their other programming.  I guess the show's style made them nervous about such topics though.

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(Permalink) Posted: April 06 2011,17:48   

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Interesting given that one of the Mythbusters is a skeptic who has on occasion said that ID/Creationism is a load of crap.

I think it's clear they're all skeptics (though they're not all atheists as well), it's just that Adam Savage, as per his personality, actually attends skeptic events and likes to talk about it.  It's funny, because he did say this at one of those events back in 2007:

 
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My goal this year is to prove natural selection on the show. It's gonna take a while, it's gonna be very hard to make it fascinating on film in the context of our narrative structure, but I figure screw it. The sky's the limit. Let's do natural selection. I'm sick of fifty percent of this country thinking creationism is reasonable. It's appalling. And I have the unique ability, maybe, to sell this idea to Discovery, and they'll, they might allow me to do it, and I'm gonna try as hard as I can.


A year later he said it wasn't looking likely to ever happen. Which I find kind of strange, since Discovery has no problem talking about evolution in who-knows-how-many hours of their other programming.  I guess the show's style made them nervous about such topics though.

Kari Byron is on record as an atheist as well

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(Permalink) Posted: April 06 2011,21:41   

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Interesting given that one of the Mythbusters is a skeptic who has on occasion said that ID/Creationism is a load of crap.

I think it's clear they're all skeptics (though they're not all atheists as well), it's just that Adam Savage, as per his personality, actually attends skeptic events and likes to talk about it.  It's funny, because he did say this at one of those events back in 2007:

   
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My goal this year is to prove natural selection on the show. It's gonna take a while, it's gonna be very hard to make it fascinating on film in the context of our narrative structure, but I figure screw it. The sky's the limit. Let's do natural selection. I'm sick of fifty percent of this country thinking creationism is reasonable. It's appalling. And I have the unique ability, maybe, to sell this idea to Discovery, and they'll, they might allow me to do it, and I'm gonna try as hard as I can.


A year later he said it wasn't looking likely to ever happen. Which I find kind of strange, since Discovery has no problem talking about evolution in who-knows-how-many hours of their other programming.  I guess the show's style made them nervous about such topics though.

Kari Byron is on record as an atheist as well

Just another reason why I want someday to become young and attractive enough to marry her.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 04 2011,07:57   

Somebody needs to get in touch with Corny and tell him it is time to update his Wolf / Thalycine anatomy research coloring book.

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added in edit:  I see that I was scooped on this by Albatrossity.  Congratulations, you beat me to it - this time Birdman... but maybe I'll surprise you the next time we post something that makes fun of Corny's positions.  :)

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(Permalink) Posted: May 24 2011,17:44   

After more than month away (and not getting Raptured), Cornelius Hunter is back.

Sorry, he's still a dick.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 24 2011,20:33   

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After more than month away (and not getting Raptured), Cornelius Hunter is back.

Sorry, he's still a dick.

So, we should all refer to him as "Dick Hunter"? Or would it be more correct to call him "Dr. Dick Hunter"?

If only my Hugh Jass puppet was still alive - he could ask him which he preferred.

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(Permalink) Posted: May 25 2011,13:53   

Cornelius Hunter:

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First, Wells is not a creationist.


http://www.creationstudies.org/operationsalt/jonathan-wells

under About CSI:

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It's no secret that the lie of evolution has become a stumbling block for many on their path to salvation. CSI is called to remove this stumbling block by teaching the truth that God is our Creator, that we are made in His image, and that by Him and through Him, all things were made.


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(Permalink) Posted: July 02 2011,23:14   

Hey guys, did you know that over at UD (and his place) Corny Hunter has definitely, no kidding, cross-my-fingers-hope-to-die-stick-a-needle-in-my-eye, falsified evolution?

 
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Corny Hunter:  

So to summarize, in addition to proteins violating evolution’s expected pattern in important ways, proteins cannot be evolved via gradualistic mechanisms. Do you remember your biology teacher’s lecture on gradualism and how crucial it was to evolutionary theory? Well forget it. It is out. Gradualism doesn’t evolve proteins.

But that is precisely what Darwin set forth as a crucial test of evolution. Remember, “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”

Well forget it. Gradualism is out, and with it Darwin’s falsification criterion has been met. Evolution has been falsified.  linky



Of course it's the same old bullshit - argument from 'it's toooooo improbable!!" pulled out of his ass numbers, but what the hey.

Let's go over there (those who aren't banninated like me) and encourage him to submit this work to a bona fide scientific journal.  After all, it's not fair of him to keep such a monumental epic discovery from the scientific community.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 05 2011,15:29   

OH, NOES, evolution even less likely!

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Modeling these force fields and how molecules respond to them is a major problem in molecular dynamics studies. Both the modeling of the force fields, and the molecular dynamics is challenging and computationally intensive. For instance, each particle influences each of the other particles. And as a particle moves, all of its influences change. But other particles are moving as well, so the dynamics quickly become extremely complicated.


Another dolt who doesn't understand the difference between modeling and reality.  A force field is a set of parameters for empircal potential energy functions.  This is inherently inaccurate.  The only reason molecular dynamics is complicated is the number of interactions.  The real explanation (quantum mechanics, again a model - electrons do not compute the orbitals they should be in) is terribly complicated.  And yes, there is even quantum dynamics.

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The previous model, which had evolution designing the chromophore and its photoisomerization, was complicated enough. Now evolution must also design force fields and their dynamics caused by electron flow within the chromophore. The design space just took another quantum leap.


The IDiot does not realize that the previous theory implicity has "electron flow within the chromophore".  This is merely time evolution of the excited electronic state.  What is new is that apparently isomerization is not a necessary part of the process - does the IDiot ask if such process was designed, then why is isomerization there?  No.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 08 2011,11:14   

Corny barking at the carnival known as UD:

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7 July 2011
Response to Comments: The Problem With Miracles
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Imagine if a police detective was told his theory had to be strictly natural. The evidence at the crime scene was obvious, but the boss wants no criminals indicted. The cause of the crime must be limited to the wind, rain, earthquakes, polar shifts, whatever. Absurd you say?


Yeah, bullets are miraculous!  Analogy fail.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 08 2011,11:23   

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Corny barking at the carnival known as UD:

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7 July 2011
Response to Comments: The Problem With Miracles
Cornelius Hunter

Imagine if a police detective was told his theory had to be strictly natural. The evidence at the crime scene was obvious, but the boss wants no criminals indicted. The cause of the crime must be limited to the wind, rain, earthquakes, polar shifts, whatever. Absurd you say?


Yeah, bullets are miraculous!  Analogy fail.

Either that or he's saying that people are not natural...which fits with his theology, of course.  About the only thing unnatural there is his stupidity.  Sure stupid that deep has to be miraculous.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 08 2011,13:21   

Sometimes it's difficult to decide whether Corny or Mung is the stupidest poster at UD.

Has anyone ever seen them together?

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(Permalink) Posted: July 18 2011,07:21   

Hunter declares a recent Nature paper by Povolotskaya and Kondrashov "meaningless." He is so incensed that he writes two posts about it. Not surprisingly, he completely misunderstands what the authors did.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 19 2011,09:56   

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Join me for a round of a piñata here and learn some amazing science in the process.

Thanks for the reminder. Was intrigued by your first comment about "the distance squared is proportional to the number of steps taken," but had lost track of the conversation. Good stuff, though you actually had it covered with your first comment.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 19 2011,10:12   

Zachriel,

I should say that the authors did not make it easy to follow their paper by stressing the analogy with the expansion of the universe. That is a deterministic process: every galaxy recedes from every other galaxy (on sufficiently long length scales).

In contrast, here we are dealing with a stochastic process: proteins move toward and away from each other. One has to do averaging in order to see a trend. The concept of equilibrium, crucial to the understanding of this work, is not stressed frequently enough. It took me a while to realize its importance. Those Hubble diagrams surely did not help.

I suppose experts had an easier time, but I am glad I took time to understand this work. It is very nice.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 19 2011,12:39   

Seems to me Gould wrote a book about this. Full House.

I'm not qualified to review it, but I have carried the image of the random walk ever since.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 20 2011,00:50   

Quote (olegt @ July 18 2011,07:21)
Hunter declares a recent Nature paper by Povolotskaya and Kondrashov "meaningless." He is so incensed that he writes two posts about it. Not surprisingly, he completely misunderstands what the authors did.

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Brilliant, oleg, those tables in Tuesday's post are very helpful.  I wonder if CH will acknowledge them?

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 20 2011,08:20   

Hunter ratchets it up to a trilogy!

Part I, Peak Fallacy: Proteins Evolved Because They Evolved.
Part II, Peak Fallacy: A Follow-Up on Nature Paper Proving A = A.
Part III, Peak Fallacy: Evolutionists Citing Other Evolutionists or, How to Drink Your Own Bathwater.

The discussion of equilibrium, or lack thereof, began in Part II and has now moved to Part III.

To be continued!

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(Permalink) Posted: July 20 2011,11:42   

Cornelius shows up in the comments section. He still doesn't have a clue.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 20 2011,11:52   

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Cornelius shows up in the comments section. He still doesn't have a clue.

Cornelius will get it when pigs sing.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 20 2011,14:00   

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Cornelius shows up in the comments section. He still doesn't have a clue.

Cornelius will get it when pigs sing.

Only if you can provide a complete mutation by mutation description of the morphological changes between non-singing pigs and singing pigs.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 20 2011,15:42   

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Cornelius shows up in the comments section. He still doesn't have a clue.

Cornelius will get it when pigs sing.

Only if you can provide a complete mutation by mutation description of the morphological changes between non-singing pigs and singing pigs.



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(Permalink) Posted: July 20 2011,17:36   

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Cornelius shows up in the comments section. He still doesn't have a clue.

Cornelius will get it when pigs sing.

Only if you can provide a complete mutation by mutation description of the morphological changes between non-singing pigs and singing pigs.


The pig reference is apt.  Olegt's comments there are like pearls before swine.

  
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(Permalink) Posted: July 21 2011,07:25   

Cornelius has finally seen the light. Or so it seems.

Yesterday he presented a calculation that, unbeknownst to him, actually follows the principle of detailed balance. I suppose that is progress.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 21 2011,09:32   

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Cornelius has finally seen the light. Or so it seems.

Yesterday he presented a calculation that, unbeknownst to him, actually follows the principle of detailed balance. I suppose that is progress.

If you can't explain the one-dimensional case, then you will probably have troubles with 11-dimensional chess.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 21 2011,10:51   

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Cornelius has finally seen the light. Or so it seems.

Yesterday he presented a calculation that, unbeknownst to him, actually follows the principle of detailed balance. I suppose that is progress.

If you can't explain the one-dimensional case, then you will probably have troubles with 11-dimensional chess.

P->g-4-upsilon-eyeofhorus-chacmool-saji-alif-lalla-thunderbird-smiley-#.

Your move.

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(Permalink) Posted: July 21 2011,11:13   

Nah, he still doesn't get it.

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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 23 2012,07:31   

Cornelius Hunter shows how to do a linear regression.


darwins-god.blogspot.com/2012/01/is-evolution-enabler-of-all-kinds-of.html


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Venture Free: Wh...what?

Perhaps a bit technical. Here's a simpler explanation.

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troy: Nice try, Cornelius.

I've done a linear regression on the data.

First of all, the best fitting straight line has a slope of 0.77 rather than the roughly 5 of your arrow. Misleading by a factor of 6.

Second, the slope is not significantly different from 0 (p=0.16). There is no evidence for a relationship between the two quantities.


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