lpetrich

Has anyone here bothered to read his book The Biotic Message?

Is it much more than the usual creationist male-bovine excrement?

However, judging from the review of it at Gert Korthof's site, its content does not seem much different from what ReMine has been posting in the Thomas-ReMine debate, and at his personal site.

ReMine's big idea is that the designer of life had embedded some messages in the structures of living things, messages to the effect that there is only a single designer and stuff like that. However, he does not really discuss how "Message Theory" is supposed to work, and he may have been making it up as he goes along. He also does not really discuss how one demonstrates that there could only have been one designer; multiple designers would be the most reasonable consequence of a "design inference".

He also claims that living things had been designed so that the origin of their features will resist natural explanations. A case that he makes by totally misunderstanding evolutionary biology in his attempt to show that it does not produce a treelike hierarchy -- he attempted to show that the idea of evolution is totally unfalsifiable, that anything whatsoever can be explained by evolution.

Finally, I note that everybody's favorite wildlife biologist seems to have read ReMine; I've seen references to a "message that there was only a single designer" in some of his postings.

pangloss

I have read it.

It consists of little more than unwarranted assumptions, unwarranted conclusions, all couched in an ever-present self-aggrandizing ego-fest.