Re: The Aphenomenon of Abiogenesis

From: D. F. Siemens, Jr. (dfsiemensjr@juno.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 16:59:28 EDT

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    Richard wrote in small part:

    To which Glen replied:
     
    > Tell me exactly what you think would constitute a measure of
    intelligent
    > design? What are the units intelligent design is measured in? How
    many
    > bubnogs constitute intelligent design?
     
     
    The first candidate seems to be Bits, the Units of Information Theory.
    And
    again, I must request that you reign in your disrepectful language.
     
    Sorry, Richard, this won't do. This involves Shannon's theory where a
    page of random numbers contains more information than a page from a
    textbook. The proof of this is that the text can be compressed, and the
    random sequence can't be. Since there is no theoretical measure of the
    content of standard text, "bubnogs" is as relevant a measure as any
    other.
    Dave

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