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Old 04-15-2002, 08:46 PM   #1
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Thumbs up Borel's "Law" explained

There is an updated talk.origins faq concerning creationist attempts to claim that life is not due to chance.

<a href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/borelfaq.html" target="_blank">Borel's Law and the Origin of Many Creationist Probability Assertions</a>

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Old 04-15-2002, 09:06 PM   #2
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RufusAtticus: There is an updated talk.origins faq concerning creationist attempts to claim that life is not due to chance.
DNAunion: Good thing Bill Dembksi spotted several flaws in Borel's logic and fixed them before making his own arguments on small probabilities!
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DNAunion: Good thing Bill Dembksi spotted several flaws in Borel's logic and fixed them before making his own arguments on small probabilities!</strong>
Too bad Dembski can't fix his own flaws.

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Too bad Dembski can't fix his own flaws.
DNAunion: Too bad Darwin couldn't either, even up to the point of his death. So I guess evolution should have died along with Darwin because he didn't have it all worked out, right?
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Old 04-16-2002, 12:58 AM   #5
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DNAunion: Good thing Bill Dembksi spotted several flaws in Borel's logic and fixed them before making his own arguments on small probabilities!
Oh my, trust the resident ID sock puppets to never pass up the opportunity to bring up one of their patron heroes, be it Behe, Dembski, or random other raving idiot that has written a book or two, even when it is during a discussion about something completely different.
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<strong>DNAunion: Too bad Darwin couldn't either, even up to the point of his death. So I guess evolution should have died along with Darwin because he didn't have it all worked out, right?</strong>
Well, Dembski has a long life ahead of him to figure out that probability calculations for abiogenesis are worthless considering we only have one sample to work with.

No to mention the fact that for his design filter to distinguish whether something is designed or not, you have to tell it so.

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