# Who is Responsible for Misrepresenting Scientific Findings?

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**Created:** [July 12, 2025, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/who-is-responsible-for-misrepresenting-scientific-findings/17320 "2025-07-12T13:11:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Midhun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/midhun/32/15995_2.png) [@Midhun](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Midhun)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/who-is-responsible-for-misrepresenting-scientific-findings/17320/15 "2025-07-13T21:55:01Z")

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> [@sfmatheson](#):
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> You seem to be assuming (or asserting) that those mechanisms are “built-in” (whatever that means) and furthermore that because they are “built-in” that they are somehow different from an explanatory perspective. I don’t care at all about your preference for viewing (say) evolutionary capacitance as something “built-in,” unless you try to claim that those things don’t have natural origins themselves

If these built-in mechanisms have role in evolution (as recent data show), then they can easily fit with a design/creation view. Because it obviously supports the idea that **organisms are designed to evolve.**

You might now argue: couldn’t these built-in mechanisms themselves have arisen through standard darwinian processes (I mean, chance mutations plus fixation)? That’s why I wondered: without these built-in systems, what creative power does evolution really have? Could it have guided a simple self-replicating molecule all the way to the first modern cells?  
If you have the time, please read this [thread](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/midhun-on-information/16360). There, I explain why I believe design is the most reasonable explanation for how the first modern-type cells appeared.

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