Gpuccio: Functional Information Methodology

[glipsnort (Steve Schaffner)]

@Art

In my opinion, this is needlessly redundant. Moreover, it strays from the usages first put forward by Dembski (who only spoke of specifications). For me, when it comes to proteins (the usual focus of biological ID), a specification is the same as the biochemical activity possessed by the protein - ATPase, RNA binding, etc., etc. I have never found it necessary to introduce more layers of confusion and terminology on this.

Be that as it may, this thread is about @gpuccio’s argument, and that argument relies on BLAST bit scores being a good proxy for the defined sense of FI. But they’re not.