From: Preston Garrison (garrisonp@uthscsa.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 07 2003 - 20:31:04 EST
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>This hypothesis yields two falsifiable predictions: a) natural processes
>will never be observed to produce more than 70 bits of information,
>and b) any configuration or sequence that is actually observed to be
>produced that contains more than 70 bits, will always be produced by
>an intelligent agent.
Please explain exactly how this could be falsified. If someone says,
"look at all these natural proteins which to all appearances
developed gradually during evolution" you will say, "they contain
over 70 bits of CSI, therefore they must be designed." If we could
directly observe that they came about by a string of individual
mutations, you could still say, "it contains 70 bits of CSI,
therefore God was directing each mutation and its fixation along the
way."
So what could possibly count as falsification?
Preston G.
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