Falk’s fallacy
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Even if Dr Falk were right to assert “randomness” as the generator of specified diversity here, a paper by D. J. Smith estimates the size of the shape space involved as between 10^10 and 10^16, which equates to less than 54 bits of information. On page 294 of his book, Dr. Meyer stipulates 500 bits as the maximum that could be generated by undirected processes. (Dr. Meyer also modestly restricts his COI law to non-biological processes, which would exclude the generation of antibody diversity.)
We must conclude that Dr. Falk has failed to offer a genuine counterexample to Dr. Meyer’s claim about the very limited power of unintelligent processes to generate specified complexity.
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This is great! At least people are now starting to deal with Meyer’s arguments instead of just dismissing him outright. Keep trying, guys – this is how “real science” is done.
Bruce
Comment by 2bberean | February 1, 2010