(January 30, 2015 at 10:22 pm)Heywood Wrote:(January 30, 2015 at 7:23 pm)Chas Wrote: No, it is not "identical for all practical purposes".
Set E contains only replicating replicators. Set X and set E are disjoint sets. Nothing proved about set X can just be applied to set E.
Both Set X and E contain the evolutionary system created by Craig Venter.
Nope. Put it in one set or the other.
Quote:Disjoint sets contain no common elements and since set X and E contain a common element, they cannot be considered disjoint.
I defined set E as containing one member.
Quote:What you are really trying to do is justify your special pleading and you have yet to come up with a reason that stands up to even cursory scrutiny.
It is not special pleading.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.