Eric Holloway: Wrap up Experiment on Mutual Information

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@EricMH

First, a preliminary note, you are the one claiming that you can prove ID has no empirical validity. So, this whole exercise of having me come up with algorithms, and then trying to point out flaws in them does nothing to support your claim. Whether I can or cannot come up with the right algorithm has nothing to do with whether you can prove ID is not empirically tractable.

It seems we are back to our starting point.

@swamidass

One more thing. I’m not making a case. I am just stating a hard cold fact:

I am an expert in information theory, whose scientific work applies information theory to solves problems in biology, chemistry, and medicine, and training PhD students in how to do this too. From that vantage point, none of the information theory arguments against evolution make any sense to me. Most seem to be in clear mathematical error.

Maybe I am wrong, but that is not an argument. That is a just a brute fact. If you want to change it, you have to make your case. I’ll look at it, but I have no expectation or need to convince you that you are wrong. So I am not making a “case”.

It is my observation that you make empirical claims and cannot produce simulations that satisfies these claims. From the beginning I’ve warned about what you dismiss as Pesky Implementation Details in Information Theory. There is a wide gap between theory and practice. Just because you’ve proven something theoretically does not mean it is true empirically.

If you are done trying to convince me, perhaps our time has come to a close. At least for now.