Winston Ewert: The Dependency Graph of Life

[AlanFox]

Ewert published this paper in 2018. It has come up in another venue and I wonder if there has been any discussion of Ewert’s paper here. Apologies but I’ve never got to grips with how to search this site and I’d be most grateful if someone could point me to such discussion if it exists.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Tim]

Winston Ewert: The Dependency Graph of Life

An interesting and signficant article was published at the Discovery Institute, by @Winston_Ewert : The Dependency Graph of Life, DOI: 10.5048/BIO-C.2018.3. [NOTE: This thread has special rules; read and follow them or there will be consequences] This article is being drummed up by a past interlocutor of @vjtorley and myself (@Cornelius_Hunter) here on this forum thread: It has always been known that the common descent model fails, both from a long list of particular examples, as well as in systematic studies. But what might a better model be? Winston Ewert’s new paper (http://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/view/BIO-C.2018.3 11) presents a dependency graph model, inspired by computer science. The paper uses model selection methods, and shows that the dependency graph model is a far superior model compared to common descent. New Paper Demonstrates Superiority of Design Model - Scientific Evidence - The BioLogos Forum I thought it would be worth discussing this in …

Critics Need to Grapple with Ewert’s Challenge to Darwin’s Tree

Evolution News says this is really hard stuff to grapple with. Do any of you here at Peaceful Science have the brain power to grapple with this? Please be careful as I don’t want anyone one injuring themselves with a cerebral hemorrhage from this. https://evolutionnews.org/2018/10/critics-need-to-grapple-with-ewerts-challenge-to-darwins-tree/

The Current Status of Ewert's Dependency Graph of Life

I’ll wait a bit and see what develops out of Winston Ewert’s work, et al., when it is expanded, and I expect more developments in information and the time required, since biocomplexity and biodiversity are not shrinking, nor are the numbers of the discoveries in molecular and cellular biology.

[AlanFox]

Wow, thanks, Tim.

[Dan_Eastwood]

Yep. I think Tim gave you the highlights. Link below for a full search. There’s more if you shorten the search to “Dependency Graph” or “Winston Ewert”. Link below for a full search, but I recommend you can ignore any citation originating from Mr. Cole.

https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/search?q=%22Dependency%20graph%20of%20life%22

If you want to view all of Ewert’s own comments, look here:

Winston_Ewert

[AlanFox]

Thanks, Dan. Four comments only? My initial impression on reading the first of Tim’s linked threads is that Josh raised some serious queries in that thread where Winston posted his comments. Ewert said he would give the matter some thought and respond in due course and the state of play has not changed since.

[Dan_Eastwood]

I thought there are more than four. I will look again later (work stuff too due).

[AlanFox]

Please don’t trouble. I’ve got a grip on search now.