Over at Uncommon Descent KirosFocus repeats the same old bignum arguments as always. He seems to enjoy the ‘needle in a haystack’ metaphor, but I’d like to counter by asking how does he know he’s not searching for a needle in a needle stack?
There is then of course much smugness and back-pating, along with “Notice some chirping crickets?”
Well, let’s see what happens in an environment where crickets aren’t moderated or banned…
With Mathgrrl and a couple of appearances in a pantomime, I think I’ve gotten in touch with my distaff side enough for a while.
It wasn’t a serious challenge, Joe. I’m not sure if you came across the Mathgrrl saga. It was an interesting sociological phenomenon for UD addicts to observe.
Here for a bit of background.
Alan Fox,
Yes, I remember the Mathgrrl saga. I could actually have told the UD types how to compute (that kind of) CSI in simple population genetic models.
However, as those were the very models that can show natural selection putting (that kind of) CSI into the genome, they might not have been interested in exploring the issue there.
Religion. People who need to believe certain things will find rationalizations.
petrushka,
Now you’ve got me wishing myself in peril. Because I would love to be in the surreal situation where I was offered that choice! I’d choose the ducks, of course. I think they’d get bored, and I’d walk.
Oh, so it’s the mysterious mathiness that is important, not what it actually means.
For most creationists/ID-proponents, yes, I suppose so. Others may be genuinely incapable of seeing the holes in their arguments.
KF has finally seen this. does he calculate information content of anything? Of course not.
Another bignum argument wrapped in the ‘Mullings Meander’.