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To: JohnM who wrote (101857)	1/25/2009 9:25:29 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) of 542970

2. Whatever one thinks of the argument is this piece, it wouldn't count as serious scientific work unless the argument itself had been translated into falsifiable propositions--operationalizations. His comment on the paradox of RNA I took as an observation, not so much an argument. If you read the entire piece, you would have noted that, thus far, laboratory experiments to refute the observation have failed. That leaves the observation standing, and this in turn calls (perhaps) some of the existing presumptions about the whole evolutionary process into question. At least, that's what jumped out at me. OTOH, it doesn't have to. There's room (in my head anyway) for both evolution and a designer to be in play. The two are usually viewed as antithetical but I've never felt they had to be. I'm surely over my head science-wise, and all of this is way too complicated to peck out on a thread, so I'm done with the topic. Except to say one more time that I haven't read anything so far to make me want to put ID theories in a ninth grade biology class, so the court rulings have probably been appropriate.

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