Gpuccio: Functional Information Methodology

[gpuccio]

@sfmatheson

Speaking only for myself, I don’t think there is any reason to discuss design, or “ID theory,” in this context until the very basic questions asked by @swamidass are addressed. And I would reiterate that asking this question outside of even a basic phylogenetic analysis/approach is futile.

It is not possible to talk meaningfully about “functional information” without these basic foundational tasks being done.

@swamidass

I agree. Rather than a primer on ID generalities, let’s focus on what specifically you @gpuccio are doing.

For example, with your definition of design, there must be a pre-existing design. You are empirically based. So what evidence can you produce for a pre-existing specification? As @nwrickert, it seems obvious that this does not exist, at least not in an human accessible form.

I was answering to the remarks made here asking how I got to the design inference from the simple observation of complex FI. If you are not interested in the theory you seem to discuss so often here, please clarify that.

But that seems not to be the case. I see that, as expected, my “primer on ID generalities” has already generated some fierce response. So, I think I will go on, and answer them.