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Old 04-09-2003, 04:13 AM   #1
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Default The Return of Christopher Langan

He's baaacckkk ....

Chris Langan has returned to the ISCID BB!

http://www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_...-t-000335.html

Anybody want to start a pool on how long he lasts this time?
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Heh. A big boy with a hungry ego needs to be fed. I bet his woman (the other Superbrain fellow of ISCID) is going to show up for some lovin'.

Anyway, I give him a couple of weeks, at least until Micah or John figure out that being subservient to Superbrains isn't quite holy.
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You mean Gina the nail tech?

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Hoo boy. And he starts off with another bit of empty noise focussing on IQ, claiming that "nature" might be intelligent. It's hard to beat that combination of arrogance and stupidity that he's got.
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Hoo boy. And he starts off with another bit of empty noise focussing on IQ, claiming that "nature" might be intelligent. It's hard to beat that combination of arrogance and stupidity that he's got.
It's always tempting to try a good-sized chunk of 2 by 4, though....
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Old 04-11-2003, 10:31 AM   #6
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He's baaacckkk ....

Chris Langan has returned to the ISCID BB!

http://www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_...-t-000335.html

Anybody want to start a pool on how long he lasts this time?
I'm waiting to see if he answers a question by charlie.d:

"I am talking about the work necessary to input information in a living organism, that is, change the genotype and/or phenotype of
that organism in a non-stochastic way. This ultimately requires kinetically disfavored chemical reactions, and thus an input of energy. If you have any idea about how one can modify the genotype or phenotype of an organism without using up energy, go for it. It's all rather simple chemistry, it shouldn't be too hard to put forward a model."

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Bebbo wondered if Langan will answer charlie d's question
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I am talking about the work necessary to input information in a living organism, that is, change the genotype and/or phenotype of that organism in a non-stochastic way. This ultimately requires kinetically disfavored chemical reactions, and thus an input of energy.
Dembski has already answered it: It requires no work at all. From Intelligent Design Coming Clean:
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How much energy is required to impart information? We have sensors that can detect quantum events and amplify them to the macroscopic level. What's more, the energy in quantum events is proportional to frequency or inversely proportional to wavelength. And since there is no upper limit to the wavelength of, for instance, electromagnetic radiation, there is no lower limit to the energy required to impart information. In the limit, a designer could therefore impart information into the universe without inputting any energy at all.
See? It's simple: Use an infinite wavelength (and therefore unfocusable) zero energy (and therefore impotent) signal! What's the problem, eh?

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