tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36143596.post8949675199536931665..comments2022-10-23T02:59:07.327-07:00Comments on ICON-RIDS -- weblog: Re - Van Sun article "Religion in Disguise"William Brookfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00125883559833719058noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36143596.post-5205427643741140402009-11-30T16:56:41.300-08:002009-11-30T16:56:41.300-08:00I think what gets lost in the ID debate is that th...I think what gets lost in the ID debate is that the investigative process is scientific, many credible scientists are investigating claims properly, and that this all says nothing about whether these investigations will bear any fruit whatsoever.<br /><br />I am not a scientist myself, I'm just a writer who loves science, and I am fascinated by the debate and how it has been used for political positioning amongst those with a religious agenda. In my opinion, this unfairly sours the real research (like the one you describe in your post) that is being done in this field.<br /><br />These are high-level academic issues that need to be hashed out and investigated by the experts in their field, not discussed amongst celebrities and housewives. It certainly isn't ready to be presented to children, because their is nothing definitive that can be claimed based off of the theory. Yet.<br /><br />The biggest issues I personally have with ID is the differences between "random" information and "non-random" information. The underlying assumption is that human and animal behavior is non-random, which is a fact we have not yet established, its an assumption, and not a very good one. <br /><br />While I and other people operate as if we have "free will", we don't have reason to believe that anything we do is based off of more than the complex pattern of chemical interactions that mark our lives.<br /><br />Of course, that is ALSO why I find studies that delve into the nature of information so valuable. If it can be determined whether "intelligence" is an actual functional rather than phenomenological concept, that is likely where those ideas will begin.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14437215645550842487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36143596.post-27235303121293729242009-03-24T22:00:00.000-07:002009-03-24T22:00:00.000-07:00Where can we find the formal definition of "struct...Where can we find the formal definition of "structural/informational (i)K-complexity"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com