It's a lot easier to play pinball than it is to make a pinball machine. (A comment concerning the difficulty of a "search for a good Darwinian search.") <br class="br">Computer programs, including all of the models of Darwinian evolution of which I am aware, perform the way their programmers intended. Doing so requires the programmer infuse information about the program's goal. You can't write a good program without [doing so]. <br class="br">Your chances of winning the lottery are about the same whether or not you buy a ticket. It's better … if you give your money to me and I'll decide whether or not to give it back. <br class="br">From the viewpoint of computer simulation, our universe does not contain the probabilistic resources to get a meaningful result for even a moderately sized unassisted [Darwinian] search. In fact, if you take ten to the one thousand of our universes in what is sometimes referred to as the multiverse, the probabilistic resources don't exist there either. <br class="br">Let's abandon labels and pursue the truth no matter where it leads. Don't entrench yourself in a paradigm and claim a corner on truth. Many who have done so in history have been shown to be foolish. <br class="br"> "Darwin as the Pinball Wizard: Talking Probability with Robert Marks,", From an interview with Robert Crowther of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, March 03, 2010, 2010-05-03 http://www.idthefuture.com/2010/03/darwin_as_the_pinball_wizard_t.html,
Robert J. Marks II: Frases en inglés
"Handbook of Fourier Analysis and Its Applications" (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 623, Robert J. Marks II, 2009, 2011-04-29 http://books.google.com/books?id=Sp7O4bocjPAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Handbook+of+Fourier+Analysis+and+Its+Applications&hl=en&ei=wcm5TaPvJYba0QHYi7nRDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false,
“Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.”
Stephen C. Meyer, Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, HarperOne (2009) p. 292
“Is it wrong to pray for God to make me more successful so that I can be more humble?”
If "knowledge puffs up," then we professors are in ever-present danger of having egos resembling threatened blow fish. <br class="br"> "Pascal's Prayer,", Robert J. Marks II, 2006-10-06, 2010-04-22 http://www.okstatefcfs.org/ministryminutes/10_9_2006Marks.htm,
Micro evolution, as I understand it, is adaptation. And characteristic of a good design is the ability to adapt to differing environments. <br class="br">Evolutionary algorithms based on Darwinian evolution do not, by themselves, have the ability to create information. <br class="br">Christians are being subjected to the same “separate but equal” discrimination used to justify discrimination in the old Jim Crow south. <br class="br"> ``Darwin or Design with Dr. Tom Woodward`` (audio), Thomas E. Woodward, 2011-01-15, 2011-04-28 http://podcast.den.liquidcompass.net/mgt/podcast/podcast.php?podcast_id=15595&encoder_id=153&event_id=63,
In the universe, [besides] space, matter and energy, there is information. [Information hasn't yet] been [well] defined nor studied. <br class="br">Many times proponents of evolutionary computing … refuse to recognize the contribution of [the programmer's infusion of information] into the process. <br class="br">Association with ID (intelligent design) in any way is detrimental to one's career. Everybody who works in ID should first have tenure before they come out of the closet. <br class="br">My comments are as an expert in computational intelligence. I'm not a biologist. For me to talk about the details of biology is as stupid as a British biologist claiming expertise in religion. (A reference to Richard Dawkins.) <br class="br">Engineers actually design things. This is why [many] engineers are interested in the area of intelligent design <br class="br"> "Well-Informed: Dr. Robert Marks and the Evolutionary Informatics Lab,", From an interview with Casey Luskin of the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, July 20, 2007, 2010-05-06 http://www.idthefuture.com/2007/07/wellinformed_dr_robert_marks_a.html,
“Pure publication quantity today has become a meaningless metric. One can publish almost anything.”
All engineering fields are either solutions looking for problems or problems looking for solutions. <br class="br">The secret of doing many things at the same time is to do them all poorly. <br class="br">Forecasting the future of technology is risky. Predictions tend to be linear whereas technical advances come in quantum jumps from paradigm shifts. After the second World War, forecasters in electronics [who did not foresee the transistor] would have linearly [and incorrectly] foretasted breakthroughs in better vacuum tube reliability from, for example, improved filament chemistry. <br class="br"> "Neural Networks and Beyond-An Interview with Robert J. Marks," IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 5, 1996 [DOI 10.1109/MCD.1996.537355 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=537355,, From an interview with Professor Bing Sheu, (University of Southern California), July 20, 2007, 2010-05-06]
Pursuance of truth requires consideration of a creator. If you define science to exclude the possibility of a creator, it isn’t a pursuance of truth. <br class="br">The universe as accepted by science in terms of size and age is not big enough or old enough to explain evolution. <br class="br"> Q&A: ‘Expelled’s’ Robert Marks, From an interview with Jerry Pierce, 2008-01-28, 2008-02-18 http://www.sbtexan.com/default.asp?action=article&aid=5534&issue=2/4/2008,
“For the record, I don’t deserve this. But I have lower back pain and don’t deserve that either.”
After being listed as one of the twenty most brilliant living Christian Professors. Originally sourced to Jack Benny. <br class="br"> "Baylor faculty member named one of '20 Most Brilliant Christian Professors,'" Waco Tribune-Herald,(April 15, 2010), Tim Woods, 2011-01-15, 2011-04-28 http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Baylor-faculty-member-named-one-of-20-Most-Brilliant-Christian-Professors.html,
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