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To: Brumar89 who wrote (695)12/9/2016 12:44:29 PM
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Why nanomachines are considered designed only if they are built by humans

J. Fraser Stoddart, Nobelist, Chemistry 2016

From David Klinghoffer at Evolution News & Views:

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry recognized the intelligent design (what else would you call it?) of artificial molecular machines. These “nano” machines are impressive as technical achievements. Yet they are also exceedingly simple, “cute” but “useless,” as Nature reported that “some chemists” say. “We need to convince [researchers] that these molecules are really exciting,” as one scientist remarked.

Writing at CNSNews, Discovery Institute biochemist Michael Behe makes the point that Darwin advocates don’t want to hear. If scientists need to be “convinced” that nano machines are “exciting” and useful, the same is surely not true when it comes to the molecular machines familiar to biologists. That’s the nanotechnolgy that make continuing existence possible for chemists, Nobel Laureates, and every living creature on the planet: …

No one needs to labor to convince anybody that kinesins (walking transport proteins) are useful. It sounds like he’s headed in a dangerous direction: More.

Let’s spell out the danger: It is okay to talk about design in nature as long as we are referring to human artifacts (because humans are not special, evolved so as to be unable to understand reality, and consciousness is an illusion.

The question of how all that information got built up somehow is circumvented by assuming that we would not know if there was information anyway. That is the message of naturalism: Not that the evidence supports it but that we can’t know. Which means evidence does not matter.

The conflict between fine-tuning and the multiverse turns precisely on that point: The multiverse is an attempt to circumvent the evidence for fine-tuning on principle because the evidence does not matter.

A naturalist theory can, of course, be imposed without evidence, and imposing the theory is what matters.

Except for artificial intelligence, of course. Which, in such a framework, is considered real intelligence. Because there isn’t any real intelligence anywhere. 0 = 0

If you believe it.

See also: Terminology watch: Hidden “intelligence” in our cells?

People say that “intelligence” is just a word. No one means it. But that is their mistake. It is becoming harder all the time to pretend that Darwinism (natural selection acting on random mutation) explains what we see. Eventually, as here, writers must start using terminology that makes sense if they are to understand the story themselves, never mind conveying it accurately.



To: Brumar89 who wrote (695)12/14/2016 11:22:33 AM
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Senate Judiciary Committee Refers Planned Parenthood For Criminal Charges


Hannah Bleau (Red Dawn)
December 14, 2016 11:00am

In a letter sent to the FBI and the Department of Justice Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended Planned Parenthood– four of its largest affiliates, to be exact– for criminal charges. Surely you remember the whole “trafficking baby parts for profit” thing. The Center for Medical Progress videos? Who could forget? All that talk of Lamborghinis and laughing about chopped up babies over lunch? (I’m still convinced those people have no soul.)

“I don’t take lightly making a criminal referral,” committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said in a press release. “But, the seeming disregard for the law by these entities has been fueled by decades of utter failure by the Justice Department to enforce it. And, unless there is a renewed commitment by everyone involved against criminalizing the trade in aborted fetal body parts for profit, then the outcome is likely to continue.”

Will the Obama administration follow through with the recommendation? I’m going to go with no. But again. His time’s almost up, which makes this referral even more relevant. It will essentially “provide the Trump administration with a foundation to levy criminal charges against Planned Parenthood.”

And before the left whines about how the videos were “deceptively edited” (which, they weren’t), you should know that the committee didn’t even base the recommendation on the videos.

“While the impetus for the investigation was the release of a series of videos regarding transfers of fetal tissue by the Center for Medical Progress, the committee’s analysis and findings are based strictly on the documents obtained independently from tissue procurement companies and Planned Parenthood,” the press release states.

According to the report, the cost analyses provided by Planned Parenthood “lack sufficient documentation and rely on unreasonably broad and vague claims of costs for the ‘transportation, implantation, processing, preservation, quality control or storage of’ fetal tissue.”

Even though the Obama administration will completely dismiss this, I’m glad lawmakers didn’t immediately toss it to the wayside. It is a big deal.

h/t The Washington Times