Thursday, September 10, 2020

Robert Marks: The Six-Year Anniversary

Six years ago, the illustrious Baylor professor Robert Marks II made the following claim: "we all agree that a picture of Mount Rushmore with the busts of four US Presidents contains more information than a picture of Mount Fuji".

I didn't agree, so I asked the illustrious Marks for a calculation or other rationale supporting this claim.

After three months, no reply. So I asked again.

After six months, no reply. So I asked again.

After one year, no reply. So I asked again.

After two years, no reply. So I asked again.

After three years, no reply. So I asked again.

After four years, no reply. So I asked again.

After five years, no reply. So I asked again.

Now it's been SIX years. I asked again. Still no reply from the illustrious Marks.

This is typical behavior for advocates of intelligent design. They do not feel any scholarly obligation to produce evidence for their claims. That's one way you know that intelligent design is pseudoscience.

3 comments:

MNb said...

But IDiots have something much better than calculations. They have intuition. Just ask Douglas Axe.

https:// evolutionnews.org/ 2016/ 08/ putting_words_t/

William Spearshake said...

Evolution is a theory and those researching it propose and test mechanism by which it works. ID is a theory but those proposing it refuse to propose and test mechanisms by which it works. I don’t think any more has to be said.

JimV said...

What with possible signs of life on Venus, and neural networks winning Go championships, IDism is getting closer and closer to flat-Earth status (as irrelevant cultists). By the same token, they may never disappear completely.

What bothers me most about their arguments is they seem to have no idea how actual human design or intelligence works. (There is no magic involved.) Their position compares one unknown mechanism with another, with no possible explanatory gain.