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Aug. 10th, 2005 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chhotiiI was going to listen to On Point this morning, when it was advertised that Richard Dawkins and some Intelligent Design proponent were going to debate regarding evolution. But Dawkins decided, along with every other evolutionary biologist the producers tried to enlist, that he won't debate the ID guy head-to-head, so now the format is that Ashbrook talks to the ID idiot for the first 1/2 hour and to Dawkins the second 1/2 hour.
Why won't anyone dare to debate this guy? He should be so easy to slay. Every statement the ID idiot makes has holes in it the size of a truck.
I can't listen. He's on the radio, saying things like:
* "just as quantum mechanics toppled Newtonian physics..." (NO STUPID, Newtonian mechanics works fine for things bigger than an atom moving at speeds much less than c, AND THAT'S WHY PHYSICS STUDENTS START THEIR STUDIES WITH NEWTON)
* "information theory dictates that DNA has to come first, not proteins" (What do you mean by "first"? How the hell does this follow from information theory?)
* "information can't flow from proteins to DNA, because 22 proteins map to 64 codons" Well DUUUUUUH, the information about which codons make up a strand of DNA is determined by what codons made up the parent strand. Duh! Doesn't this guy know the most basic thing about biology?
...without being challenged! Arrrrgggghhhhhh!
Why won't anyone dare to debate this guy? He should be so easy to slay. Every statement the ID idiot makes has holes in it the size of a truck.
I can't listen. He's on the radio, saying things like:
* "just as quantum mechanics toppled Newtonian physics..." (NO STUPID, Newtonian mechanics works fine for things bigger than an atom moving at speeds much less than c, AND THAT'S WHY PHYSICS STUDENTS START THEIR STUDIES WITH NEWTON)
* "information theory dictates that DNA has to come first, not proteins" (What do you mean by "first"? How the hell does this follow from information theory?)
* "information can't flow from proteins to DNA, because 22 proteins map to 64 codons" Well DUUUUUUH, the information about which codons make up a strand of DNA is determined by what codons made up the parent strand. Duh! Doesn't this guy know the most basic thing about biology?
...without being challenged! Arrrrgggghhhhhh!
