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Their idea to find things in biology that could not have arisen from prior states is interesting...
alcaray — (archived)

...and should be discussed seriously rather than poohpoohed.

I think that approach should not work because it depends on our ability to imagine what states might have changed to what states. And to imagine what conditions were in effect when the change occurred. And if our imagination is wanting, then the proof is taken to be solved. I do not think it will be possible really to prove that a state could not have arisen from some prior state (biology).

An example: when I was a little kid, I was stuck in teh backseat of a car on long trips a lot. One observation I recall is that tires on cars traveling at freeway speeds revolved much faster than I could imagine. I logged the fact that they revolved impossibly quickly.

Now if I had faith in my observation, and if I was an IDer, I might have claimed that this proved that some supernatural force permitted the tires to move so quickly. But really what it proved was the limit to my understanding.

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