Darwinist ignorance, confusion & epigenetics (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 18, 2010, 15:02 (5118 days ago) @ xeno6696

Speaking purely as a mathematician, you cannot calculate ANY odds for a system in which you don't know all the moving parts. In a previous discussion I actually entailed EXACTLY the process to be done. I bring this up again because so much of your argument falls back on calculations--that are being done in the absence of all the moving parts.
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> The fact of the matter is, we don't have a full grasp our own biochemistry yet. To me, any claim of intelligence here is bounded by basic epistemological issues. 
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> If you don't have a good definition of intelligence, than you can't reasonably discern chance from intelligence; what if God wants it to look like chance? How would you account for this? If it's like "porno" than philosophical inquiry really ends here as skepticism prevails.-I would call your epistemological approach the 'all or none' phenomenon. From my view, I can eat one piece of pumpkin pie and tell you it is pumpkin pie, and not have to eat the entire pie. I can even guess as to how it was made.