Allelopathy and Creation
John Vreeland
plant that help or hinder another organism. Usually the effect is
harmful, especially between different species. I stumbled upon this
phenomenon is my attempt to create a natural planted freshwater
aquarium when I had trouble getting some species to co-habitate the
tank. I discovered that some plants were hindering others, somehow,
and not by strangling resources. A lot of plants secrete chemicals
that will hinder duckweed for example. Yellow water lilies (Nuphar
lutea) secrete something into the tank that will *kill* both duckweed
and water lettuce, with which it competes for sunlight. Without this
attack, the water lettuce and duckweed tend to predominate on the
surface.
It is trivial to explain the existence of allelopathy using natural
selection, but it seems to contradict the entire explanation given of
the Fall, at least as I usually hear it. Nuphar lutea secretes 6, 6'
dihydroxythiobunipharadine, which has been shown to prevent water
lettuce seed germination. Did it do this before the fall? Did the
ability of some plants to kill others appear after the Fall?
Perhaps this is a pointless question. Perhaps the answer is that "God
changed them," the same way S/he changed the dinosaurs and dogs to
force them to eat meat. Allelopathy is a relatively new field,
however, so I thought it ought to be discussed.
snex
plants arent alive according to the bible, so plant "death" before the
fall was possible. PRAYSE JEBUS!
r norman
wrote:
Before the fall, the secretion of Nuphar lutea was beneficial to one
and all. However water lettuce could have prevented Eve from being
tempted and so bears a great deal of responsibility, hence knows sin.
As a result, it was punished by reacting negatively to what previously
had been pure and noble and good.
Cemtech
vree...@yahoo.com says...
By what method did God change them? Can we see where God changed them?
Why did God change them? Can we see God changing other species of water
plants? And who is this God person anyways?
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John Harshman
Dobzhansky's dictum: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light
of evolution."
Harshman's corollary: "Nothing in creationism makes sense."
Rich Townsend
Townsend's footnote: "Nothing in ID"
coaster
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get a 'Delta'! What's that spell!? COD!"
John Wilkins
Friar Broccoli
Nothing makes sense to me.
Dale Kelly
> Allelopathy is the release of biologically active chemicals by one plant
> that help or hinder another organism.--
another reason to believe in irreducible complexity
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Cemtech
says...
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 14:04:18 -0700, John Vreeland wrote:
>
> > Allelopathy is the release of biologically active chemicals by one plant
> > that help or hinder another organism.--
>
> another reason to believe in irreducible complexity
And another reason you're talking out of your arse. It isn't
irreducibly complex. So far nothing has.
Slimebot McGoo
<dale....@comcast.net> wrote:
>another reason to believe in irreducible complexity
The best example we have of irreducible complexity is your brain. You
chemically removed a few cells and it stopped functioning.
McGoo
Mark Isaak
>> Dobzhansky's dictum: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the
>> light of evolution."
>>
>> Harshman's corollary: "Nothing in creationism makes sense."
>
> Townsend's footnote: "Nothing in ID"
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the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering
wf3h
Dale Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 14:04:18 -0700, John Vreeland wrote:
>
> > Allelopathy is the release of biologically active chemicals by one plant
> > that help or hinder another organism.--
>
> another reason to believe in irreducible complexity
>
>
and the tooth fairy as well....
Ye Old One
>On Fri, 04 May 2007 14:04:18 -0700, John Vreeland wrote:
>
>> Allelopathy is the release of biologically active chemicals by one plant
>> that help or hinder another organism.--
>
>another reason to believe in irreducible complexity
When you find an example please feel free to tell us all about it.
--
Bob.
Walter Bushell
Friar Broccoli <Eli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nothing makes sense to me.
Now that you made sense of nothing. Congrats. Nothing is an advanced
concept.
John Vreeland
While allelopathy is clearly NOT an example of IC, the concept od
irreduceable complexity is demonstrable everywhere. Almost any
biological system can be argued to be IC. But so what? Darwinian
evolution permits (if not outright predicts) the existence of IC
systems. Michael Behe is helping to flesh out biological evolutionary
theory. Perhaps he shall be remembered for that.
Ye Old One
enriched this group when s/he wrote:
>On May 5, 2:42 pm, Ye Old One <use...@mcsuk.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 04 May 2007 21:31:08 -0500, Dale Kelly
>> <dale.ke...@comcast.net> enriched this group when s/he wrote:
>>
>> >On Fri, 04 May 2007 14:04:18 -0700, John Vreeland wrote:
>>
>> >> Allelopathy is the release of biologically active chemicals by one plant
>> >> that help or hinder another organism.--
>>
>> >another reason to believe in irreducible complexity
>>
>> When you find an example please feel free to tell us all about it.
>>
>
>While allelopathy is clearly NOT an example of IC, the concept od
>irreduceable complexity is demonstrable everywhere. Almost any
>biological system can be argued to be IC. But so what? Darwinian
>evolution permits (if not outright predicts) the existence of IC
>systems. Michael Behe is helping to flesh out biological evolutionary
>theory. Perhaps he shall be remembered for that.
As I understand it irreducible complexity is supposed to be functional
system "composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that
contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of
the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning".
The presupposition of this claim of Behe's is that these systems could
no have "evolved" but must have been designed.
I agree that Behe is helping to flesh out biological evolutionary
theory - by driving scientists to prove him wrong. A job, I will add,
that they are doing well seeing as every system put forward by him as
IC has proven not to be IC after all.
.
--
Bob.
John Vreeland
> On 6 May 2007 07:43:19 -0700, John Vreeland <vreej...@yahoo.com>
No, IC is still IC. IC doesn't mean "can't have evolved;" that's
Behe's mistake. IC just means "irreduceably complex," the definition
of which you gave. It implies a non-trivial evolutionary history.
Behe's problem is that he is unable to grasp anything other than the
most trivial examples of evolution.
Behe's gift to biology is that he has found an interesting way to
classify different types of evolution. That he draws entirely
inappropriate conclusions from this tool does not mean that it is not
useful. I think IC is a useful concept for explaining some of the
more interesting aspects of all types of selection-driven evolution.
Ye Old One
Ok, I think I get what you are saying now.
--
Bob.
Free Lunch
John Vreeland <vree...@yahoo.com> wrote in
<1178471887....@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
I was under the impression that the IDCreationists went further than
that, though, that they were arguing that there was no _possible_
pathway through which a particular IC structure could have evolved.
>Behe's gift to biology is that he has found an interesting way to
>classify different types of evolution. That he draws entirely
>inappropriate conclusions from this tool does not mean that it is not
>useful. I think IC is a useful concept for explaining some of the
>more interesting aspects of all types of selection-driven evolution.
That may be, but using two different definitions of a term like
"irreducibly complex" will lead to any number of arguments from
IDCreationists that rely on switching the meaning of IC in the middle of
the discussion.
John Vreeland
> On 6 May 2007 10:18:07 -0700, in talk.origins
> <1178471887.872202.26...@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>:
Agreed. Invoking the secret alternative definition of a word is known
as "weaseling." The DI jumped up and down in celebration of Behe's
work but it doesn't really help them at all. In any continuous
solution space, given enough time a path can always be found between
two arbitrarily dissimilar species. The best that the DI can hope to
do is claim that not enough time has passed, and Behe is not helping
them there, as he is fairly certain that the Earth is olde. The DI
misrepresents Behe's ideas out of some kind of ignorance, willful or
otherwise. That also like to assert that it is plainly obvious that
paths simply do not exist. This seems to be an important article of
faith with them, so it might in their minds have grafted itself onto
Behe's work.
I haven't read all or even most of Behe's works, but the literal
meaning of "Irreduceable Complexity" seems to be the correct one, with
the idea of "no possible paths" coming from Dembski's work, perhaps
through some assumed synthesis from a dialectic not in evidence. At
least, I never found it, and I spent a lot of time looking. That's
why I finally decided Dembski doesn't know what he is talking about.
As far as I can tell the dot product of Information theory and Behe's
work is zero. You can only get the two to combine synergistically by
misunderstanding one or both, and "misunderstanding" seems to be
Dembski's job at the moment.
But I could be wrong about Behe. Did he take his thesis farther than
I thought? If so he moved from mixed relevance through irrelevance
(from not really having done a darned thing lately) to negative
relevance. He seems intelligent enough; why he seems stuck on an idea
that would give a thesis advisor reason to be alarmed is beyond my
reckoning.