It says the report is “created by peer reviewers”.
That does not mean it constitutes peer review.
If a professional prostitute agrees to mow my lawn for a fee, that does not mean we have had sex.
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They never said this service constituted actual scientific peer-review, but it is a close simulation of it:
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And I almost came when that hooker mowed my lawn.
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Isn’t that a country-and-western song?
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Get the lines just right, eh?
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No, this is what I meant when I said that:
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The highlighted part is what makes it different than actual peer-review. My paper is not constructed for submission to a specific journal.
That’s because my paper is not supposed to be constructed as an original research article.
Instead, it is supposed to be a perspective article type. Read link for more:
I think you guys are missing the point here.
I have made it very clear that I am not planning on publishing this article directly. Instead, my plan was to make sure this paper has all the necessary elements in it to be a viable template for more qualified researchers to further develop this theory and model.
Right now, this paper is still considered a rough draft and will always be one until more competent Christian researchers take ownership of the content of this paper and make it robust and ready to submit to a theology, philosophy, or scientific journal themselves. They would be able to make the most out of it.
When that day comes, I will continue to improve on it , if need be, until the theory is a fully viable template for researchers to take it the next level.
So ,of course, it is still not perfect, but there are no major flaws nor is it lacking practical elements that would make it less than a scientific theory anymore.
A rather vague, half-hearted and disengaged endorsement, given that he admits that he hasn’t even read “anywhere close” to all of whichever of the myriad versions of it he was referring to, and does not come even close to discussing its merits.
If Sam and Bill, both of whom appear to have a fairly meager scientific background (contrast with the far stronger scientific backgrounds of @Mercer and @John_Harshman, who have both been more critical), and neither of whom seem to have engaged with your ‘theory’ to any great degree, are the best that you can come up with in terms of support for your ‘theory’, then I would suggest that this does next-to-nothing to counterbalance the negative opinions you have received.
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Have any of these “more qualified researchers” (a set that would leave out Bill and Sam) expressed a positive impression of your project, let alone suggested that it comes anywhere close to having “he necessary elements in it to be a viable template”, let alone expressed any interest “to further develop this theory and model”?
I would suggest rather that these “more qualified researchers” have told you that your ‘theory’ is incoherent and poorly substantiated, and thus a poor foundation for any further enterprise.
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If it’s a theory, it needs results. If you’re upset that I’m expecting your work to be what you say it is, that’s a you problem.
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Have you considered submitting to a theological journal? Why go to all the trouble to satisfy scientific review when there are journals without any scientific requirements?
Here’s one, and they published Demski.
https://www.pdcnet.org/pc/Submission-Guidelines
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That’s because they prefer to end the debate on their terms and prefer Joshua’s model and approach by defualt. Joshua’s approach allows them to hold on to their unsupported pet theory.
Yes. Of course:
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A scientific theory is a large overarching explanation that unites lots of fields and explains lots of different kinds of observations. What springs forth from there are hypothesizes that are narrow and we can test it.
Richard Owen’s universal common design/archetype from a Divine mind is that overarching theory. My particular common design model is a hypothesizes that flows out of that overarching theory of common design. The same goes with the Orch-OR theory of consciousness.
I hope this clears things up.
Oh yeah. I have tried on numerous occasions to submit it to philosophical or theological journals. However, it got rejected every single time because of the many scientific arguments that were present in the paper. Here is an example of what I mean:
Without passing judgment on the merits of your paper, I’m afraid I must pass on it for Perspectives on Science. It’s a contribution to the evolution/design debate, to theoretical evolutionary biology and, to a lesser extent, to the philosophy of science—but the Perspectives mission statement commits us to interdisciplinary work on the intersection of history, philosophy, and sociology of science. All articles are expected to have significant grounding in at least two out of these three disciplines (see the “Purpose and Scope” statement on our website for more).
I sympathize regarding your unfortunate experience with the peer-review service. In my experience, such services are rarely if ever able to deliver on the promises they make. There are reasons for this. Scholarly peer review is a chore professional scholars perform, pro bono, as a service to the scholarly community. Many of them shirk this duty outright, and those who are willing to do it, and able to do a good job of it, are in short supply, and thus frequently overtaxed. It follows that such people are unwilling to free-lance with commercial services; their priorities lie elsewhere. The commercial services are left with third- or fourth-tier “experts” as their consultants. You’ve observed the result for yourself. Your scholarly aspirations would be better served by a small (preferably local, but online works too) peer group of fellow scholars who meet to critique each others’ work.
I highlighted this part to illustrate why I have decided to spend the majority of my time on this forum. Without this forum, I would not have been able to get this far with my model.
If I did decide to submit it to a journal again, it would be one that allowed for perspective article types because it is the best fit compared to all other article types.
No. A scientific theory starts as a hypothesis. Scientific hypotheses start as explanations, but they still need to make empirical predictions–yours doesn’t.
A hypothesis only begins to be considered to be a theory after it has withstood many rigorous empirical tests. Like evolutionary theory.
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Yes, that can be said for Richard Owen’s universal common design/archetype from a Divine mind.
For instance, Charles Darwin himself famously complained in a letter to Asa Gray, “I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae [parasitic insects] with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
The same goes with so-called design flaws in nature. However, over the course of 30 years, it has been repeatedly found that what initially seemed to be a design flaw or evil design caused by an unguided process turned out not to be the case afterall with increasing understanding of the design.
Richard Owen’s theory also has a history of accurate predictions regarding gaps in the fossil record. For instance, the fossil record has revealed that the observed pattern of no evolutionary change punctuated by rapid biological innovations matches the patterns predicted [47] if a common design/archetype accounts for life’s history and diversity.
Lastly, he claimed humans were unique and did not emerge from ape ancestors. There has been numerous observations that have confirmed human expectionalism where the cognitive abilities of the human brain have not been observed to be present in animal brains nor did they work properly in animal brains through experimentation.
This is why Richard Owen’s explanation can be considered a scientific theory. In contrast, my particular common design model is a hypothesize that flows out of that overarching theory of common design. This leads me to address this…
That is not what you suggested in a different thread…
Every item in that list is subjective except one. It’s a pseudoscientific farce.
The only one that is empirical is:
Prediction: we should determine that most pseudogenes and ERV’s are functional.
(A) We would expect analogous traits to evolve separately between families and orders in response to similar needs.
Not empirical and not different from evolutionary theory.
(B) We expect to find functional ERV’s and pseudogenes between families and orders.
[/quote]Not empirical and not different from evolutionary theory. Numbers and proportions might make it empirical.
Prediction: over 80% of families and orders evolved separately.
Almost, but only if you can define “species trees” empirically. Since it makes no sense, I doubt you can.
Prediction: The regulatory regions of core gene promoters between over 80% of families and orders are incongruent with species phylogenies (I.e., vertical inheritance).
Please explain how the parasitic Ichneumon wasps fit into that view. Then you can take on river blindness, malaria, and so on.
There is no such pattern. Nor does Owen’s theory predict such a pattern. Also, if you’re going to cite references, more than just a number would be necessary. But based on your history, I suspect that the reference doesn’t support the claim.
This is in conflict with both the fossil evidence and the genetic evidence. Why, apes even have a hippocampus major.
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OK, that’s actually better than I expected. Maybe we are stuck with you? 
What then, do you do with a framework for research that no researchers think can lead to successful research? And even if they did, how would they get it past peer review when no one accepts the framework?
Did I tell you about my fancy sports car? It hasn’t got any wheels, or rims, axles, transmission, motor, gas tank, radiator, steering, seats, dashboard, windows, chassis, windshield wipers, or … anything, really. In my mind tho, it is bright red and drives really fast. I’ll sell it to you for the low low price of $500, 
I missed this before … don’t you know not to trust statistics?
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This is false. Bill at least is firmly on the DI side of the fence. Also, you have misconstrued the difference between Joshua’s and the DI’s position – the DI is trying to come up with scientific-sounding excuses for conservative Christians to deny evolution, Joshua is trying to come up with scientifically-undisprovable reasons for conservative Christians to accept evolution.
And given that, even if every single conservative Christian denied evolution, it would not change evolution’s scientific status one iota, the only way to “end Origins debate” is with acceptance of evolution.
If you are claiming this as an example of a “more qualified researcher”, then what are their qualifications?
Also, as you are paying them to edit and review your work, they have a financial interest in keeping you happy by being as positive as possible about your work.
Finally, they would not appear to be in a position “to further develop this theory and model”.
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God is omnibenevolent and designed animals for the purpose of surviving, reproducing, and/or adapting. For this reason, God will not design animals with pathogens or features that reduce the population or another animal’s ability to survive, reproduce, and fit an environmental niche.
However, as you pointed out, there are currently examples in nature that seem to conflict with the theory, such as
(i) Toxoplasma gondii and its toxoplasmosis
(ii) Excretory or digestive systems of parasitic insects
(iii) Tongue-eating louse (a parasitic isopod)
(iv) Carnivorous behavioral genes of parasitic vertebrates
(v) The enzyme B-1 4 glucanase
In the future, we expect to find a sensible purpose for alleged “evil” designs that show they do not reduce (but increase) the population or another animal’s ability to survive, reproduce, and fit an environmental niche.
The famous parasitic wasps I just mentioned are just one of many examples of this:
That is what his theory predicts John:
Owen was a pivotal figure in the emergence of the evolutionary view of life forms as indicated by fossils. He was a strong advocate of the notion that the paleontological record is progressive, arguing in an anonymous Quarterly Review(1851) critique of Charles Lyell’s steady-state view of the geological past that the succession of fossils through time shows a distinct development from lower to higher. For Owen, this progressive change was a process guided by divine purpose. He believed in an orthogenetic-saltational process of organic unfolding, driven by an inherent tendency to change, not by contingent, gradualist, and external forces such as natural selection.
Again, the fossil record has revealed that the observed pattern of no evolutionary change punctuated by rapid biological innovations matches the patterns predicted if a common design/archetype accounts for life’s history and diversity (i.e. saltations).
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1014503108
For instance, God fine-tuned life in just-right forms, at just-right times, and at just-right abundance and diversity levels and replaced those life-forms via mass extinction events followed quickly by mass speciation events. The new life-forms removed the just-right amounts of carbon dioxide and methane from the atmosphere to perfectly compensate for the brightening Sun.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07622-y
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08955
Without a conscious mind there would be no possibility of perfectly compensating for the increasing brightness of the Sun so that life can be continuously sustained on Earth throughout the past 3.8 billion years.
No, it’s in conflict with your pet theory. Common design can explain the same fossil and genetic evidence. However, there are other ways we can determine that humans did not emerge from apes. For instance, we can expect humans to possess cognitive qualities that are exceptions to what would otherwise be predicted if we were evolutionary descendants, such as:
KIF18a [also known as (a.k.a.) Kinesin 8]
KNL1 (a.k.a. CASC5)
SPAG5 (a.k.a. astrin)
Endorestiform Nucleus
These examples involve the cognitive abilities of the human brain that either have not been observed to be present in animal brains or do not work properly in animal brains through experimentation.
You mean no atheistic researchers would think it has any worth. But, what makes you think Christian researchers would feel the same way.
I would only agree with this if by evolution, you are referring to Richard Owen’s theory of evolution NOT Darwin’s.
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I mean neither. I mean the modern Theory of Evolution. And what you “agree with” matters no more to its scientific status than what conservative Christians agree to or deny.
Meaningless boilerplate. Who wrote that review of your paper? And what was that person’s qualifications?
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And, of course, since @Meerkat_SK5 falls into that 97%, I’m not sure what that would mean anyway.
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YGTBKM. Because science is the same for everyone. If it were different, then it should be a simple matter to find evidence of that difference. That never happens.
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