In a Panda's Thumb post dated 5th May Evolutionary Mathematician Joe Felsenstein criticises Intelligent Design aficionado Granville Sewell for making the claim that the following problem is unsolvable: According to Sewell that problem is, how do we...
#3 Explain how life could have
originated and evolved into intelligent humans, through entirely natural
(unintelligent) processes.
Felsenstein quotes Sewell where Sewell explains why he thinks the foregoing problem is unsolvable (Emphases are mine):
Well, I have a very simple proof [*GASP!*] that the biological problem #3 posed above is also impossible to solve, that
does fit in the margin of this document. All one needs to do is realize that if
a solution were found, we would have proved something obviously false, that a
few (four, apparently) fundamental, unintelligent forces of physics alone could
have rearranged the fundamental particles of physics into libraries full of
science texts and encyclopedias, computers connected to monitors, keyboards,
laser printers and the Internet, cars, trucks, airplanes, nuclear power plants
and Apple iPhones.
Is this really a valid proof? It
seems perfectly valid to me, as I cannot think of anything in all of science
that can be stated with more confidence than that a few unintelligent forces of
physics alone could not have rearranged the basic particles of physics into
Apple iPhones.
On the Spongeam
https://quantumnonlinearity.blogspot.com/2019/09/evolution-naked-chance.html
https://quantumnonlinearity.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-mathematics-of-spongeam.html
https://quantumnonlinearity.blogspot.com/2016/02/on-structuralism-and-spongeam.html
https://quantumnonlinearity.blogspot.com/2015/11/intelligent-designs-2001-space-odyssey.html
http://quantumnonlinearity.blogspot.com/2015/06/algorithms-searches-dualism-and_13.html
Footnote
* The wealth making and innovating energy of the market is without doubt, but unfortunately that energy sometimes thrashes uncontrollably: The non-linear instabilities of the market and its power law wealth spectrum, often perceived as unjust, are liable to fuel alienation and far left socialism. Community identification & the highly localised "serve yourself" operation of the market often find themselves at odds. Somehow the best of the free market and the best of community values have to be reconciled - the alternative is volk-libertarianism which will generate a counter culture of alienation and extreme socialism. See here: https://quantumnonlinearity.blogspot.com/2020/07/marx-vs-smith_30.html
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