Intelligent design and "design detection"

[Giltil (Gilbert Thill)]

@John_Harshman

I only vaguely remember gpuccio’s arguments, but didn’t he produce a graph purporting to show increase in functional information over time, which was basically a line showing time since divergence from humans? Do you have a link to his very sciency publication?

You will find such a graph at post 78 of this thread

Gpuccio: Functional Information Methodology

Gpuccio is a poster at Uncommon Descent who published a blog article at UD arguing that proteins have high functional information (FI), and must have been designed. His work is commonly referenced by ID proponents. This is his post: We asked for him to explain his methodology further. @colewd asked him (comment 343), and gpuccio gave a response (comment 356). He has agreed to respond to reasonable critique. OK, so here is a brief primer about my methodology to measure Functional Information in proteins: a) I use Blast to measure sequence homology between proteins, in bits. I take the bitscore from the Blast algorithm as it is, with some consideration of the number of identities and similarities, too. b) I am interested in homologies that are conserved throughout long evolutionary periods. I consider that kind of homology as a very good estimator of FI. The reason is very simple: a specific sequence can be conserved for those long time windows only if it is under very strong fu…