From: Glenn Morton (glennmorton@entouch.net)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 22:58:21 EDT
A bubnog is a valid scientific measure--really. Unfortunately, it is rarely
used and has nothing to do with information theory.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of D. F. Siemens, Jr.
>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:59 PM
>To: richard@biblewheel.com
>Cc: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: The Aphenomenon of Abiogenesis
>
>
>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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