I haven't kept up with how Dean's plea to other IDiot/creationists to
tell him why the top 6 of IDiocy put up by the ID perps failed the
scientific creationists over 30 years ago. The fine tuning thread seems
to have been going on long enough for him to have gotten some idea of
the failure of that argument over the last few decades. The "evidence"
hasn't gotten any better since the failure of scientific creationism
over 30 years ago.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/talk.origins/q49rLAsLd8I/uwunmsgqCAAJ
Links:
1.
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/ids-top-six-the-origin-of-the-universe/
2.
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/ids-top-six-the-fine-tuning-of-the-universe/
3.
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/ids-top-six-the-origin-of-information-in-dna/
4.
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/ids-top-six-the-origin-of-irreducibly-complex-molecular-machines/
5.
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/ids-top-six-the-origin-of-animals/
6.
https://evolutionnews.org/2017/11/ids-top-six-the-origin-of-humans/
So what was the result of Dean's plea to others of like mind to tell him
why these top 6 never amounted to anything worth discussing?
The ID perps put up these top 6 two years ago so it isn't like there
hasn't been enough time to figure out what these mean to IDiocy. Has
anyone observed any ID perp doing anything with these top 6 in the last
two years?
The first clue may be from the ID perps themselves. They claim that
these 6 are not in order of their significance to the ID creationist
scam. They are in their order of occurrence. What this means is that
the ID perps understand that YEC creationism is dead. The YEC are still
the largest support base for IDiocy, and they are usually the guys still
wanting to teach this junk in places like Louisiana, Texas and Utah.
The Utah IDiots wanted to teach ID in their public schools as the ID
perps were putting up these top 6 2 years ago. The ID perps were later
complaining that the Utah IDiots did not bend over for their switch
scam, but dropped the issue instead. Beats me why they expect any IDiot
to bend over for the switch scam given to them by the same guys that
sold them the ID scam. The switch scam doesn't mention that the ID scam
ever existed. What should that fact tell Dean about the top 6?
The big bang may have happened around 13 billion years ago. Some fine
tuning would have had to occur before or during the big bang, and the
rest of the fine tuning would have happened around 5 billion years ago
when our solar system was forming out of dead star dust. Generations of
stars had lived and died to form the elements that make up our planet.
DNA would have likely evolved after the first self replicating lifeforms
had appeared. Evidence indicates that this may have happened since
around 4 billion years ago. Before DNA there seems to have been RNA
that made up early enzymes and from which protein synthesis evolved. We
havn't figured out what came before RNA, if anything.
Behe's irreducibly complex systems evolved some time ago. The flagellum
evolved over a billion years ago, blood clotting evolved in metazoan
life forms before or during the Cambrian explosion, and the adaptive
immune system evolved in vertebrates over 400 million years ago. Since
then Behe hasn't identified more recent IC systems. Behe's definition
of IC seems to have changed over the years. Around 2 decades ago Behe
told his critics that IC didn't seem to matter because some systems with
dependent interacting parts were not his type of IC systems. His
example of an IC system that wasn't his type was the Lever and Fulcrum.
A tree branch falling between two rocks could create such an IC system,
so it wasn't Behe's type. Behe's type needed more well matched parts
than that, and the order and arrangement of mutations that occurred to
make his systems IC would tell Behe which systems were his type, but
Behe had no such examples to show anyone. The most recent definition of
IC put up was that the number of unselected steps were important. Behe
has crowed about the fact that we have discovered several systems that
required 2 unselected steps to form the new function, but Behe has
admitted that, 2 are not enough to make the systems his type of IC. He
claims that these systems are on the edge of IDiocy. He seems to
require at least 3 unselected steps for the system to be the IDiot type
of IC system, but he has found no such system.
It is sad that he understands that 2 unselected steps are obviously
possible, so 3 would not be impossible if such a system were ever
discovered. My guess is that he would change his edge to 4. Really,
there haven't been very many systems evaluated in such a way that
unselected steps could be identified and we already have an example of 2
unselected steps. Since the IC part doesn't seem to matter any more it
turned out that IC was just the "flagellum is a designed machine"
argument that failed the scientific creationists over 30 years ago, and
Behe hasn't been able to improve it since.
Number 5 seems to be basically about the Cambrian explosion (half a
billion years ago). As sad as it may seem for YEC IDiots Meyer makes a
big deal about the fact that we have narrowed the event to within 25
billion years down from around 40 million over half a billion years ago.
Basically this is the same argument that the scientific creationists
used to fool the rubes over 30 years ago. The ID perp's own anti
evolution arguments refute these claims. Kalk put up the IDiot new gene
denial where they were claiming that too many new genes were evolving
during the evolution of life.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04136-5
This is the paper that the IDiots put up to support the IDiot new gene
denial, and it obviously shows that the new genes were evolving during a
long drawn out series of events during the evolution of multicellular
animals, and that multicellular animals evolved before the Cambrian
explosion occurred. Look at figure 1 and look up how long ago Porifera
evolved on this planet. The Cambrian explosion occurred within the
black triangles on the far right side of the figure.
Number 6 is just lame and is dealing with fossil gaps within the last 10
million years of human evolution. Any YEC IDiot just has to note how
the ID perps can limit the gaps to within the last 10 million years to
understand they there is no argument here worth noting for them. Some
of the gaps are longer than their creation has existed. It is the
stupid fossil gap argument that failed the scientific creationists. The
argument was bogus before the scientific creationists started to use it,
so it is no wonder why no IDiot will support it today. As the gaps get
filled two new gaps appear where there once was one, but the new gaps
are not as large as they were 30 years ago when the argument failed the
scientific creationists, so what use could the argument be today?
This is as sad as IDiocy has always been, and is why no IDiots have
likely clued Dean in on why these 6 failed the scientific creationists
over 30 years ago. If any IDiot responded to Deans plea, post a link.
This is the best that the ID perps could come up with and they all
failed the scientific creationists over 30 years ago.
Dean likely should repeat his plea until someone puts him out of his
misery. He won't accept the truth from the science side, so some other
IDiot will have to do the dirty deed. Why does Dean think that IDiocy
had to take over after the failure of scientific creationism? How
viable can IDiocy be when their top 6 had already failed the scientific
creationists over 30 years ago? The situation obviously has not
improved for the creationists that became IDiots.
Ron Okimoto