Comment by fluoridation

Comment by fluoridation 5 days ago

Out of curiosity, what was the result in question? The director of the DI is a molecular biologist and I've seen his name attached to a paper that reported a pretty humdrum technical result about... (actually checking my notes) the statistical improbability of enzymes arising by purely random assemblage of unrelated protein folds.

dekhn 5 days ago

that's not humdrum, it's carefully cloaked pseudoscience.

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fluoridation 5 days ago

The conclusions as stated in the paper seemed valid, and the methodology seemed to check out, it was just inconsequential; abiogenesis doesn't posit that chemical processes are purely random. The real problem is that creationists were parading the astronomically low probability cited by the paper as evidence that enzymes must have been intentionally constructed.

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