Morely,
Firstly, life is exactly “chemical reactions” unless you are a vitalist – and from before the 19th century…
Thanks for the advice about looking at the work of Chen – look at the link I posted and see who wrote the article… You may need to get your parents to help with the “scroll” feature of the new-fangled computing device you are operating.
Why does punctuated equilibrium “disprove” Darwinism. Care to quote a single scientist – starting with Darwin – that claims that Evolution progresses at a constant rate(note this is not the same as a “gradual” rate whatever that means). Care to show why mutation generating variety and selection weeding out the weaker varieties means that phenotypes MUST show constant change? I wait for this breakthrough in science with the same baited breath I wait for Deuce to use “pure reason” to come up with the ultimately “true” theory of everything using merely the fact that classical mechanics is false along with the first ever proof of an axiom. I have to say you IDers have a number of phenomenal advances you are keeping under your belt, I suspect the Discovery institute has got a number of Nobel prizes coming their way…..
If you are going to throw Susskind around you might try reading what he writes and not relying on third-hand Wikipedia articles. I doubt he would claim to be a “prominent physicist” or the “father of String theory” – Green, Schwartz, Witten, Polyakov and Polchinski might be better choices. You need to read more than wiki articles based on publisher bumpf and then you wouldn’t make idiotic comments about how SJG “disproved Darwinism” or who a guy who wrote a book whose title is “The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the *****Illusion of Intelligent Design*****” has somehow “proved” ID. Read a book. It’s fun, trust me.
