The Age of The Earth, by Dr. Stephen Meyer

The Discovery Institutes Dr. Stephen Meyer discusses the age of the earth—and the differences between the positions held by advocates of Intelligent Design and Young Earth Creationists.

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[EGMAG]

What evidence!??

[chessnotdice]

@JayJayAbels Well of course ID is creationism. It posits that an intelligence lies behind the origin of life, so what else would it be. When you consider that the genetic code found in DNA is information/language/coding, and that all codes have a mind behind them, then the idea of ID is not so ridiculous. It's been estimated that the organisational complexity of DNA renders the odds laughably small that it could have formed by undirected means.

[mcmanustony]

@123bogger123

"Dembski have formulated reliable design detection criterion for inferring design"- WRONG. it is pseudo mathematical gibberish and debunked entirely by Shallit and Ellsberry in their paper which, unlike Dembski's "work", was peer reviewed.

[Greyclouds40]

@evoTARDSareINSANE

It is a PhD in History and philosophy of science. This makes Dr. Meyer an expert in those fields, but sadly, his knowledge is lacking in the fields of Geology, Genomics, Chemistry and other hard scientific fields.

Case in point: in the "Signature in the Cell," Meyer incorrectly portrays Prokaryotic genomes as having "more information than they need." Quite to the contrary, Prokaryotic genomes are demonstrably on the lowest end of the c-value scale.

[JayJayAbels]

@123bogger123 Bullshit.

"Young Earth Creationism begins with an interpretation of Genesis and deduces from that hermeneutic what science must say." <--- That is NOT science. That's NOT how science works. That is misusing science in an attempt to "fit" the natural world into a pre-existing agenda.

"His work was published in Oxford" - What's the name of the scientific paper and in which scientific journal was it published?

Like I said... BULLSHIT.

[123bogger123]

@JayJayAbels Have you read any ID literature or are you just spouting off the slogans from your side uncritically? Young Earth Creationism begins with an interpretation of Genesis and deduces from that hermeneutic what science must say. ID proponents like Dembski have formulated reliable design detection criterion for inferring design. His work was published in Oxford and his criterion are used (often unconsciously) in undisputed fields such as archaeology, forensics, and cryptography.

[evoTARDSareINSANE]

@spammemang

Look at you, pretending to have a HIGH SCHOOL diploma lol.

Dr. Meyer has a PHD__FACT

Where's your degree? Do you have one in evotardism?

[spammemang]

look at this guy playing at being a scientist.

[psycotria]

Just as Scientology is based on a scifi author's 1950s fiction, & Mormonism on a known fraudster's 1800s fiction, Islam is likewise based on a 1300s fiction, Christianity, a 300s fiction and derivatives of the root, Judaism, which is based on more ancient works.

It is amazing how quickly ignorant folk can be sold wishful, utter BS, which they then pass on.

[JayJayAbels]

This guy and the "Discovery Institute" are pulling ALL of your legs. Do NOT be fooled into believing that "Intelligent Design" is a true scientific theory or has ANY reliable value in scientific discourse. It IS Creationism... specifically Christianity... re-branded with a more "scientific" sounding name in an attempt to compete with legit scientific theories... like evolution.

These guys and "Scientologists" are both guilty of the same trickery.

Do not be fooled guys/gals.