The Trapped Scientist - when he opens the door a picture from the Galapagos will appear
| Here is why science breaks. The above combination for the door cannot be really be broken by chance and natural selection even given several billion years. Yet, it must have been broken or life would not have evolved in the primordial soup as we are taught in biology class. So as a scientist or as a programmer in this case, I must make my experimental conclusion agree with the naturalistic axiom (or be fired). So I modify the code to hide the failure. I call the experiment after 200,000 tries, and claim that I have finite computing resources and a single second of my computer processor's time is just too valuable to deal with a stupid question like this. Of course life evolved in the primordial soup and the RNA world existed. I was taught that it did in school, this hypothesis agrees with the naturalistic axiom, so I just don't need to investigate the probabilities. (If you hit the try again link, your computer will give the scientists 200,000 more tries. If you ever open the door, you will see a moral eel otherwise you will just see me taking a picture of a sealion in the Galapagos). | The
logic just outlined plagues scientific thinking. It is fundamentally flawed in that it is
incapable of challenging the naturalistic axiom. So questions like can it happen or what
are the probabilities are never investigated. Intelligent design does not rely on the naturalistic axiom. Proponents believe that the above experiment should not have been arbitrarily called at 200,000 tries. It should be extended, taking up years of computer time. If the doors associated with the origin of life cannot be opened given the age and size of the universe, then science should not claim that they can be. The RNA world described in chapter 10 is such a claim. It is nonsense, yet it is taught as if it actually happened in most college and high school biology classes. |