Over at Jeffrey Shallit’s blog, he’s had an interesting review of ID’iot math.
It seems that just as the ID'iots have been bumbling and fumbling with the
amazing, disappearing gawds model, the ID’iots have been bumbling and fumbling in vain attempts to cabal together the ID’iot inspired “it’s just too complicated to occurred without the Christian gawds”.
Recursivity
The Mathematics of Intelligent Design
Here we have a classic example (
Sequences Probability Calculator | Uncommon Descent) why it's hard to take intelligent design seriously.
The flagship blog of intelligent design presents a worthless piece of software, not even at the level of a bad junior-high-school science project, as an accomplishment. It `tries to answer questions like this: “a random process generating sequences of length L from an alphabet of S symbols in T trials of t seconds each, involving c chemical reactions, does exceed the resources of the universe (age, max number of chemical reactions, universal probability bound)?”'. We are told that this silly exercise "may give an idea of the numbers involved in scenarios as origin of life, production of biopolymers, binary and character text generation, and so on." Right.
The author clearly doesn't know what "random process" means (hint: it doesn't necessarily mean uniform probability). And his program doesn't take into account anything interesting about chemistry at all. It's just worthless number pushing.
Garbage in, garbage out. Come to think of it, that's pretty much the description of intelligent design.
Addendum: they've already removed the page. I guess there are some things that are so stupid, even Uncommon Descent can't get behind it. But you can still see the software here: (
Sequence Probability Calculator v.1.1.)
Addendum: it's now back again. Not much different than before, except they added a few English mistakes.