5 Responses to “Putting the Design Matrix to Good Use”

1. nobody Says:
   April 23rd, 2008 at 7:34 pm

   Twelve clansmen and one bagpipe make a rebellion.
   - Sir Walter Scott

Comment by nobody — April 23, 2008 @ 7:34 pm

2. Aagcobb Says:
   April 24th, 2008 at 10:42 am

   I'm going to put this here because I'm guessing Joy would consider it OT on her thread on Darwin and the Holocaust. It would have been interesting if Stein had made a documentary concerning the various strands Hitler wove together and warped into his sick, twisted, murderous ideology. Centuries of virulent, violent christian anti-semitism was the prime ingredient and eugenics was part of it too, though for centuries christians never needed eugenics or evolutionary theory to justify the torture, murder, conquest and enslavement of Jews, Muslims, heretics and heathens.

   Of course thats not what Stein did. What he did was make a right-wing propoganda piece which send the message to believers that Darwinism is evil as demonstrated by the Holocaust, and therefore its wrong. Which is simply a lie.

   As Joy pointed out, Hitler grabbed and twisted many justifications for his evil. Evolutionary theory is vastly less important to the Holocaust than Einstein's theories were to the making of atomic bombs. The uses that people put scientific theories to do not make those theories either false or evil, just as christianity is not evil for its use by Hitler to justify the Holocaust.

Comment by Aagcobb — April 24, 2008 @ 10:42 am

3. Thought Provoker Says:
   April 24th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

   Apparently, the Expelled movie might cause a resurgance of interest in the song Imagine.

   Allow me to remind everyone of the Lyrics….

   Imagine there's no heaven
   It's easy if you try
   No hell below us
   Above us only sky
   Imagine all the people
   Living for today…

   Imagine there's no countries
   It isn't hard to do
   Nothing to kill or die for
   And no religion too
   Imagine all the people
   Living life in peace…

   You may say I'm a dreamer
   But I'm not the only one
   I hope someday you'll join us
   And the world will be as one

   Imagine no possessions
   I wonder if you can
   No need for greed or hunger
   A brotherhood of man
   Imagine all the people
   Sharing all the world…

   You may say I'm a dreamer
   But I'm not the only one
   I hope someday you'll join us
   And the world will live as one

   A press release from the makers of the movie Expelled…

   "If you really listen to the lyrics of Imagine then you realize that it represents everything that the Neo-Darwinists want. 'Imagine there's no Heaven…No hell below us…Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too…' That's exactly what the Darwinist establishment wants to do: get rid of religion. And that's what we point out when we play less than 15 seconds of the song and show some of the lyrics on screen," said Walt Ruloff Executive Producer and CEO of Premise Media.

   link

Comment by Thought Provoker — April 24, 2008 @ 5:50 pm

4. Thought Provoker Says:
   April 24th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

   Hi All,
   Another bioquantum physics example.

   This time, birds…
   Quantum Zeno Effect Underpinning the Radical-Ion-Pair Mechanism of Avian Magnetoreception

   It is here shown that a fundamental quantum phenomenon, the quantum Zeno effect, is at the basis of the radical-ion-pair magnetoreception mechanism. The quantum Zeno effect naturally leads to long spin coherence lifetimes, without any constraints on the system's physical parameters, ensuring the robustness of this sensory mechanism. Basic experimental observations regarding avian magnetic sensitivity are seamlessly derived. These include the magnetic sensitivity functional window and the heading error of oriented bird ensembles, which so far evaded theoretical justification. The findings presented here could be highly relevant to similar mechanisms at work in photosynthetic reactions. They also trigger fundamental questions about the evolutionary mechanisms that enabled avian species to make optimal use of quantum measurement laws.

   That last part is worth repeating, in bold…

   "They also trigger fundamental questions about the evolutionary mechanisms that enabled avian species to make optimal use of quantum measurement laws."

Comment by Thought Provoker — April 24, 2008 @ 11:36 pm

5. olegt Says:
   April 25th, 2008 at 7:34 am

   TP,

   Kominis's article is a preprint. Caveat emptor.

Comment by olegt — April 25, 2008 @ 7:34 am

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