Part 6: A Recap of Why Harran Goes Off the Tracks in his Criticism of ID Theory

T Pagano

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Feb 19, 2018, 9:30:02 PM2/19/18

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On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:13:09 +0000, Martin Harran wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:19:20 -0600, T Pagano <notmya...@dot.com>
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>>On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:01:09 +0000, Martin Harran wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 00:52:45 -0500, "R. Dean" <"R. Dean"@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:

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> You are the one making claims about ID,

In this case I assert only that ID Theory is not guilty of what you
attribute to it: inferences that the designer is God. Those inferences
are made outside the scope of ID Theory and occur outside its methodology.

>can you produce a single
> scientific method or tool which supports it or which it can even use?

The theory of probability.

Hemidactylus

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Feb 19, 2018, 9:45:02 PM2/19/18

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Can’t you be satisfied by mere intra-thread renaming instead of creating
orphaned discussions spread out all over the place across the newsgroup.
You are wearing out your welcome here faster than a drunk uncle
interrupting a priest by talking politics at a funeral service and flirting
with the grieving widow.

Martin Harran

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Feb 20, 2018, 9:40:03 AM2/20/18

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On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:25:21 -0600, T Pagano <notmya...@dot.com>

wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:13:09 +0000, Martin Harran wrote:
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>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:19:20 -0600, T Pagano <notmya...@dot.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 14:01:09 +0000, Martin Harran wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 00:52:45 -0500, "R. Dean" <"R. Dean"@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
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>> You are the one making claims about ID,
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>In this case I assert only that ID Theory is not guilty of what you
>attribute to it: inferences that the designer is God. Those inferences
>are made outside the scope of ID Theory and occur outside its methodology.

>>can you produce a single
>> scientific method or tool which supports it or which it can even use?
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>The theory of probability.

The odds of the particular sequence of numbers that came out in the
Florida lottery over the last 30 years are something like 1 in
22957480^2900 [*]. According to you and Dembski's theory of
probability, that sequence of numbers could not possibly have happened
therefore we must all have imagined it.

[*] See 4hp74cltd97i0399o...@4ax.com for calculations.

T Pagano

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Feb 23, 2018, 9:35:04 AM2/23/18

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"You have no power here, begone, before somebody drops a house on you.
--Glenda the Good Witch, "Wizard of Oz"

And I'll call your cowardly bluff. Surely the Moderator will happily
remove me with even a single complaint.

Bob Casanova

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Feb 23, 2018, 1:25:03 PM2/23/18

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On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:30:59 -0600, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by T Pagano <notmya...@dot.com>:

>On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:43:59 -0600, *Hemidactylus* wrote:

>> Can’t you be satisfied by mere intra-thread renaming instead of creating
>> orphaned discussions spread out all over the place across the newsgroup.
>> You are wearing out your welcome here faster than a drunk uncle
>> interrupting a priest by talking politics at a funeral service and
>> flirting with the grieving widow.

>"You have no power here, begone, before somebody drops a house on you.
> --Glenda the Good Witch, "Wizard of Oz"

Cute. Stupid, childish and irrelevant to the point, but
cute...

>And I'll call your cowardly bluff. Surely the Moderator will happily
>remove me with even a single complaint.

Who mentioned anything about a mythical (in effect)
"Moderator"? T.o is robo-moderated. Hemi's post was about
t.o's denizens and their tolerance limits.
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Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov