Archive for May, 2008  Speaking of "math alone doesn't tell you
everything"….  May 30, 2008 - 3:24 pm Comments Off  Today I
learned that “real” Intelligent Design theory, far from being a
political creationist Trojan Horse championed by people who do
not understand why methodological naturalism is important, is
actually a real science about finding mathematical “markers” to
show something is designed. It’s a real science because it’s
falsifiable- if you can show something “irreducibly complex”-
like a bacterial flagellum- could have evolved just fine without
having to invoke a designer, ID is falsified and its honest
proponents will presumably pack up and go home rather than
calling Goalposts U-Haul and finding some other “irreducibly
complex” biological gewgaw to add to the designer’s shrinking
curriculum vitae.  Liu and Ochman, “Stepwise formation of the
bacterial flagellar system”. Genome sequencing has really made
finding these relationships rather than just positing them a lot
faster. I have now falsifie