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To challenge those in power, use stories as a weapon
Eric Liu
In a democracy, the power resides with the people. Here's actionable advice on how you can get your share, from civics educator Eric Liu.
Power is something we are often uncomfortable naming and talking about explicitly. In our everyday talk, power has a negative moral vibe: "power-mad", "power-hungry", "power trip". But power is no more inherently good or evil than fire or physics. It just is. The only question is whether we will try to understand and harness it. In the culture and mythology of democracy, power is supposed to reside with the people.
Here's my simple definition of power — it's the capacity to ensure that others do as you would want them to do. Civic power is that capacity exercised by citizens in public, whether in elections or government or in social and economic arenas. Power in civic life takes many forms: force, wealth, state action, ideas, social norms, numbers. And it flows through many conduits: institutions, organizations, networks, laws and rules, narratives and ideologies. Map these forms and conduits against each other, and you get what we think of as "the power structure."
Story is the catalytic agent for changing the status quo.
The problem today is that too many people aren't able to draw, read or follow such a map. Too many people are profoundly illiterate in power (TED Talk: Why ordinary people need to understand power). As a result, it's become ever easier for those who do understand how power operates in civic life to wield a disproportionate influence and fill the void created by the ignorance of the majority.
The powerful tell tales about why they deserve their status, so that they can feel better about it. So do the powerless. Together, these two sets of stories form an unseen edifice, a prison of the imagination that shrinks everyone's scope of possibility about alternative arrangements and allocations of power.
When you want to challenge the powerful, you must change the story. You can use story to organize people and then allow them to organize themselves into the story. Your narratives have to offer an alternative to the dominant story line of why things are the way they are. You have to stir up a new sense of "us"; provide an overarching explanation for who has what and why; and awaken the hero's spirit in every citizen. Story is the bonding agent in social cohesion. It is the catalytic agent for changing the status quo.
Organizing people centers on telling three nested narratives: the story of self, the story of us, and the story of now.
Marshall Ganz, one of the greatest community organizers alive, knows all this. He learned his art as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in the 1960s, then went on to organize migrant farmworkers with Cesar Chavez. He developed the organizing tools and strategies used by the first Obama presidential campaign and has mentored countless social-justice organizers around the planet. He teaches now at Harvard, where, 28 years after dropping out of college, he returned to finish his degree and get a doctorate. He is the quintessential teacher-as-learner.
Everywhere he goes, Ganz uses a method for organizing that centers on three nested narratives: the story of self, the story of us, and the story of now. He teaches organizers entering into any setting to start not with policy proposals or high concepts like justice but with biographies — their own, and those of the people they hope to mobilize.
What are the stories you tell about yourself? Why do you tell them that way? How can we find connections across our stories of origin that build trust and common cause? That work then flows into the story of us: the collective narratives of challenge, choice and purpose that emerge from any community — that, in fact, help define it. This is how in a place like New Orleans after the flood or Detroit after the crash, residents can develop a shared identity of resilience and reinvention. It's how anti–Common Core activists nationwide have been able to forge a cross-ideological crusade of parents and teachers tired of standardized-testing regimes that crush creativity and stifle liberty.
Once that shared narrative is activated, the organizer can connect it to the fierce urgency of now: a story about why this is the "movement moment," when individual and collective motivations converge, and when action is needed and possible. Why this and no other time is the time for change. This is how "Yes We Can" became more than a slogan in 2008, as "Morning in America" did in 1980. Or "Make America Great Again" did in 2016.
Stories are weapons in an endless contest for legitimacy.
Of these three stories, the middle one — about us — is crucial. Any effort to exercise citizen power depends on creating new answers to the question: Who is "us"? During the campaign for a $15 minimum wage in Seattle, one of the most potent speeches I heard was from a woman named Evelyn, a sixty-something Filipina immigrant who cleans rooms at a Sea-Tac Airport hotel. Her husband is a baggage handler at the airport. It was a fund-raising event for the campaign, and this was her first public speech. And though she'd never heard of Marshall Ganz before, in her short and blunt remarks she intuitively hit each of his marks. She talked about how a higher wage would enable her to catch up on her bills (self). She talked about why this was a unique opportunity to make gains for working people (now). But she was at her most effective when she talked about what kind of Seattle we wanted to be, and why the city would be stronger if the people who do the thankless work could afford to live there, too. In short, she redefined us. She redrew the circles of identity, not as low-wage workers versus high-wage workers but as people who hold true Seattle values of inclusion versus those who don't.
This redrawing of the circles is also how "deep canvassing" — intensive face-to-face front-porch conversations based on personal storytelling — can change minds and win adherents on contentious issues like gay and transgender rights. Two young political scientists, Joshua Kalla of Berkeley and David Broockman of Stanford, have conducted pioneering field experiments on deep canvassing. One of the strategies that they found most effective was "analogic perspective taking," in which canvassers would invite citizens to talk about times when they'd been treated unfairly for seeming "different." From there, the canvasser could pivot to what those citizens had in common with gay or transgender people, and could often awaken enough empathy to reduce bias.
This is more than stepping into someone else's shoes — it's stepping into the story of how someone else came to be wearing those shoes. If you are trying to convince your neighbors that a nearby church should be allowed to host a temporary homeless encampment, how do you deploy story? Sometimes, it might be by deriding the selfishness of those who resist. More often, it will be by appealing to the better angels of all, so that even resisters can join without losing face. Either way, you are crafting an imagined us in order to create a real majority. In a town with excellent schools that attracts young families, how do you deal with the divide between the newcomers who are driving up property values and the old-timers who don't have school-age kids and want lower taxes? Again, you create a story of us, of common interest, that will either transcend that divide or sharpen it in a way that isolates the holdouts.
Such stories are weapons in an endless contest for legitimacy. The civil rights movement was (and is still) a decades-long argument about Who is us. The 2016 presidential election was another referendum on the question. In this time of unprecedented economic inequality, the American self-story as a "middle-class nation" is eroding rapidly. The day when a majority of Americans are people of color is now within sight, but meanwhile, political polarization is at its highest since the Civil War. These are strong centrifugal forces.
Who will legitimately get to speak for the United States during such a time? Who can embody and represent us? That is not primarily a question about presidential candidates. It is a question about citizens, and what groups of us can best organize the imagination — and claim the "us."
Excerpted from the new book You're More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen by Eric Liu. Reprinted with permission from Public Affairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. © 2017 Eric Liu.
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The fiscal woes brought on by scandals and sky-high salaries are continuing in Bell as a new audit says the Los Angeles-area city may soon have trouble even providing basic services for its residents.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the audit released Thursday says if the city continues spending as it has it will end up $2.2 million in debt at the end of this fiscal year.
The audit requested and paid for by LA County Supervisor Gloria Molina recommends laying off public employees, cutting city services and possibly disbanding the Bell Police Department.
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"National Security Law for Ordinary People, Ordinary Law for National Security People" is a translated phrase from a popular social media post published in May 2021, written to satirize the asymmetric due process experienced by pro-government and pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong.
Quip on the asymmetric due process experienced by pro-government and pro-democracy figures in Hong Kong.
On May 12th, [https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1590475-20210512.htm local media reported] that Frederic Choi Chin-pang, a senior officer in the Hong Kong Police Force's National Security Department was placed on leave after being caught in a police raid on an unlicensed massage parlor in the city. Prominent pro-establishment politicians jumped to his defense, calling on the public not to jump to conclusions and reminding people that common law principles dictate that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. By May 18th, [https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3133928/hong-kong-police-national-security-director-caught Choi was cleared by the police force] of illegal or immoral conduct, while six women also caught in the raid [https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1591548-20210518.htm were arrested.]
On May 12, 2021, local media reported that [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210513091429/https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1590475-20210512.htm Frederic Choi Chin-pang, a senior officer in the Hong Kong Police Force's National Security Department, was placed on leave after being caught in a police raid on an unlicensed massage parlor] in the city. Prominent pro-establishment politicians defending Choi, calling on the public not to jump to conclusions and reminding them that [[Wikipedia:Common law|common law]] principles dictate that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. By May 18, [https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3133928/hong-kong-police-national-security-director-caught Choi was cleared by the police force of illegal or immoral conduct], while [https://web.archive.org/web/20210518232618/https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1591548-20210518.htm six women caught in the same raid were formally arrested].
Critics pointed out the hypocrisy of Choi's defenders, in rushing to remind people that defendants are "innocent until proven guilty" at a time when [https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/03/hong-kong-prosecutors-charge-47-with-subversion-supporters-rally-outside-bail-hearing/ dozens of pro-democracy activists are being held in prison] for months on national security charges even before their trials have even begun. There are numerous other examples of unequal commitments to due process and asymmetric penalties for pro-democracy and pro-establishment defendants in Hong Kong.
Critics pointed out the hypocrisy of Choi's defenders in rushing to remind people that defendants are "innocent until proven guilty" at a time when [https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/03/hong-kong-prosecutors-charge-47-with-subversion-supporters-rally-outside-bail-hearing/ dozens of pro-democracy activists are languishing in prison] for months on national security charges even before their trials have even begun. Choi's case is just one among many examples of unequal commitments to due process and asymmetric penalties for pro-democracy and pro-establishment defendants in Hong Kong.
====Unequal application of justice====
In November 2020, an [https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2020/11/hong-kong-police-arrest-journalist-who-investigated-7-21-incident/ investigative journalist with public broadcaster RTHK was arrested] for making "false statements" while accessing a government vehicle license plate database, in a move widely seen at the time as an attempt by the government to curtail journalists' abilities to conduct investigations. In April 2021, she was convicted and fined $6000 HKD. Two months later, Hong Kong's Department of Justice [https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3137638/hong-kong-prosecutors-questioned-magistrate-after dropped an identical charge against a reporter] with Ta Kung Pao, a state-owned pro-Beijing newspaper.
In November 2020, an [https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2020/11/hong-kong-police-arrest-journalist-who-investigated-7-21-incident/ investigative journalist with public broadcaster RTHK was arrested] for making "false statements" while accessing a government vehicle license plate database, in a move widely seen at the time as an attempt by the government to curtail journalists' abilities to conduct investigations. In April 2021, she was convicted and fined $6000 HKD. Two months later, Hong Kong's Department of Justice [https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3137638/hong-kong-prosecutors-questioned-magistrate-after dropped an identical charge against a reporter with Ta Kung Pao, a state-owned pro-Beijing newspaper].
Critics have also pointed to [https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1394076275661148161 increasingly heavy sentences for pro-democracy protestors] charged with unauthorized assembly, often justified by magistrates as necessary for a "deterrent" effect. They decry the comparatively light sentences handed to individuals who have attacked pro-democracy supporters, such as a man who received just 45 months for stabbing three people at a Lennon Wall in 2019. [https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3081513/hong-kong-judge-offers-sympathy-man-he-jails-stabbing The judge offered his sympathies to the stabber], likening the pro-democracy protestors to a "terrorist army."
Critics have also pointed to [https://twitter.com/alvinllum/status/1394076275661148161 increasingly heavy sentences for pro-democracy protestors] charged with unauthorized assembly, often justified by magistrates as necessary as a "deterrent." They decry the comparatively light sentences handed to individuals who have attacked pro-democracy supporters, such as [[https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3081513/hong-kong-judge-offers-sympathy-man-he-jails-stabbing a man who received just 45 months for stabbing three people at a Lennon wall in 2019]; the judge offered his sympathies to the stabber, likening the pro-democracy protestors to a "terrorist army."
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Frederic Choi Chin-pang (Hong Kong Police Force)
On May 12, 2021, local media reported that [Frederic Choi Chin-pang, a senior officer in the Hong Kong Police Force's National Security Department, was placed on leave after being caught in a police raid on an unlicensed massage parlor in the city. Prominent pro-establishment politicians defending Choi, calling on the public not to jump to conclusions and reminding them that common law principles dictate that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty. By May 18, Choi was cleared by the police force of illegal or immoral conduct, while six women caught in the same raid were formally arrested.
Critics pointed out the hypocrisy of Choi's defenders in rushing to remind people that defendants are "innocent until proven guilty" at a time when dozens of pro-democracy activists are languishing in prison for months on national security charges even before their trials have even begun. Choi's case is just one among many examples of unequal commitments to due process and asymmetric penalties for pro-democracy and pro-establishment defendants in Hong Kong.
Unequal Application of Justice
In November 2020, an investigative journalist with public broadcaster RTHK was arrested for making "false statements" while accessing a government vehicle license plate database, in a move widely seen at the time as an attempt by the government to curtail journalists' abilities to conduct investigations. In April 2021, she was convicted and fined $6000 HKD. Two months later, Hong Kong's Department of Justice dropped an identical charge against a reporter with Ta Kung Pao, a state-owned pro-Beijing newspaper.
Critics have also pointed to increasingly heavy sentences for pro-democracy protestors charged with unauthorized assembly, often justified by magistrates as necessary as a "deterrent." They decry the comparatively light sentences handed to individuals who have attacked pro-democracy supporters, such as [a man who received just 45 months for stabbing three people at a Lennon wall in 2019; the judge offered his sympathies to the stabber, likening the pro-democracy protestors to a "terrorist army."
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Groundhog J
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Tags: アルビレックス新潟, ガンバ大阪, コンサドーレ札幌, サガン鳥栖, サンフレッチェ広島, ショーン・キャロル, セレッソ大阪, ベガルタ仙台, ヴィッセル神戸, Cerezo Osaka, Consadole Sapporo, 週刊サッカーマガジン, 蹴球ベイベー, 鹿島アントラーズ, FC Tokyo, FC東京, Gamba Osaka, J.League, Japan, Jリーグ, Jubilo Iwata, Kashima Antlers, Kashiwa Reysol, Kawasaki Frontale, Nagoya Grampus, Omiya Ardija, Sagan Tosu, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Sean Carroll, Shimizu S-Pulse, Urawa Reds, Vegalta Sendai, Vissel Kobe, Weekly Soccer Magazine, Yokohama F. Marinos, 名古屋グランパス, 大宮アルディージャ, 川崎フロンターレ, 日本, 柏レイソル, 横浜F.マリノス, 浦和レッズ, 清水エスパルス
March brings spring, cherry blossoms and a brand new J.League season. Things didn't feel particulalry fresh after the first round of matches in J1 though…
The start of a new season brings fresh hope, and there is always plenty of talk of the positive changes that have taken place which will improve teams over the coming months.
This year was no different, and with eight managerial changes having occurred over the off-season period there was, if anything, even more discussion of 'new eras' than usual.
Then the games took place and it seemed as if we'd never been away.
The televised game in Round 1 pitted the two J1 sides most affected by the March 11th tragedy against each other, and Vegalta and Kashima played out a tense encounter that was decided by Taikai Uemoto's goal. Sendai defending ruggedly and Antlers underperforming; as you were, then.
In the other 2 o'clock kick-offs there was a similar feeling of patterns continuing from the 2011 season.
Nagoya won 1-0. Their goal was scored by Josh Kennedy. When I saw that the Australian had given them the lead against Shimizu I tweeted, tongue-in-cheek: "Kennedy puts Grampus head against S-Pulse. Header or penalty?" Then NHK showed the highlight. Ah, it was a penalty.
Meanwhile, two of the newly-promoted sides, Consadole and Sagan, were making steady starts by earning their first points in J1 – against Jubilo and Cerezo, who clocked up 18 draws between them last time around.
Urawa Reds, too, had been expecting an upturn in fortunes but just as on the first day of the 2011 season their hopes were dashed with a 1-0 away defeat.
There was even a feeling of déjà vu with the new man in the dugout; a guy called Petrovic getting off to a disappointing start despite the positivity he had brought with him. Have I seen this before?
My opening question to Petrovic 2.0 at the recent Kick Off Conference was, "Last year Reds' new coach was called Petrovic, this year too. How is this one going to be different?"
He laughed and said, "I know! Do you think the same things will happen?"
I didn't then but there was an eerie similarity to their opening game defeat.
As there was in Omiya, where Ardija got off to a terrific start in their apparent quest to be the best hosts in the division by going down 1-0 to FC Tokyo.
Jun Suzuki's side battered the 2011 J2 champions for the opening half-an-hour, but obliged their guests by failing to score and then conceding the only goal of the game after an hour.
Frontale's 1-0 win over Albirex was slightly incongruous to the way that games between those two sides have gone in recent years though, and the remaining two fixtures also threw up some surprises.
Or did they?
This year's souped-up Vissel Kobe did come out on top in their Kansai derby with Gamba, and Yoshito Okubo did manage to find the net twice and complete a game without a caution.
However, Yosuke Fujigaya was as clumsy as ever between the sticks for Gamba, and despite being far the poorer side they still managed to score two goals.
The arrival of Yasuyuki Konno to shore-up one of the leakiest defences in the game doesn't seem to be paying off just yet, and as long as Gamba have a Brazilian or two around to notch at the other end it appears as if they'll always be a threat.
(Assuming that the usual patterns will continue, that will only be until they head to the Middle East in the summer, of course.)
Aha, but the last – and best – game of the weekend was surely something new?
Kashiwa Reysol drew only three times on their way to the title in 2011 – just once at home – so their 3-3 draw with a new-and-improved Yokohama F. Marinos was a little unexpected.
Marinos' quick-passing and aggressive attacking was also a refreshing change, and it looks as though I may have to retract their 'Tsu-Marinos' moniker if things continue.
But wait a minute.
Jorge Wagner claimed two assists and Leandro Domingues scored a beauty? I've heard that before.
And, come to think of it, didn't Marinos also earn an impressive draw away to the reigning champions at the start of last season…
Does anybody else feel like this is Groundhog J?
2012 J.League Preview
Categories: Daily Yomiuri / デイリーヨミウリ
Tags: Albirex Niigata, アルビレックス新潟, ガンバ大阪, コンサドーレ札幌, サガン鳥栖, サンフレッチェ広島, ショーン・キャロル, ジュビロ磐田, ジョルジーニョ, セレッソ大阪, デイリーヨミウリ, ドラガンストイコビッチ, ネルシーニョ, ベガルタ仙台, ホセ・カルロス・セホーン, ミハイロ・ペトロヴィッチ, ランコ・ポポヴィッチ, ヴィッセル神戸, Cerezo Osaka, Consadole Sapporo, 石崎信弘, Dragan Stojkovic, 鹿島案アントラーズ, FC Tokyo, FC東京, Gamba Osaka, J.リーグ, J.League, Japan, Jorginho, Jose Carlos Serrao, Jubilo Iwata, Kashima Antlers, Kashiwa Reysol, Kawasaki Frontale, Mihailo Petrovic, Nagoya Grampus, Nelsinho, Nobuhiro Ishizaki, Omiya Ardija, Ranko Popovic, Sagan Tosu, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Sean Carroll, Shimizu S-Pulse, The Daily Yomiuri, Urawa Reds, Vegalta Sendai, Vissel Kobe, Yokohama F. Marinos, Yoshito Okubo, 名古屋グランパス, 大宮アルディジャ, 大久保嘉人, 川崎フロンターレ, 日本, 柏レイソル, 横浜F.マリノス, 浦和レッズ, 清水エスパルス
The 20th J.League season gets underway on Saturday and my preview is in today's Daily Yomiuri.
It's in three parts, the first of which is key info and a prediction for each team. The second is an interview with FC Tokyo's new coach Ranko Popovic, while the third features comments from Dragan Stojkovic (Nagoya Grampus), Nelsinho (Kashiwa Reysol), Yoshito Okubo (Vissel Kobe), Jorginho (Kashima Antlers), Jose Carlos Serrao (Gamba Osaka), Mihailo Petrovic (Urawa Reds) and Nobuhiro Ishizaki (Consadole Sapporo) on the upcoming season.
The only way is up
Tags: Avispa Fukuoka, アビスパ福岡, サガン鳥栖, サンフレッチェ広島, ショーン・キャロル, セレッソ大阪, ドワイト・ローデヴェーヘス, ベガルタ仙台, モンテディオ山形, ロアッソ熊本, ヴァンフォーレ甲府, ヴィッセル神戸, Cerezo Osaka, Dwight Lodeweges, 週刊サッカーマガジン, 蹴球ベイべー, FC Tokyo, FC東京, J.リーグ, J.League, J2, Japan, JEF United, JEFユナイテッド, Kashiwa Reysol, Montedio Yamagata, Omiya Ardija, Roasso Kumamoto, Sagan Tosu, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Sean Carroll, Shonan Bellmare, Tochigi SC, Tokushima Vortis, Tokyo Verdy, Urawa Reds, Vegalta Sendai, Ventforet Kofu, Vissel Kobe, Weekly Soccer Magazine, Yokohama FC, 大宮アルディージャ, 徳島ヴォルティス, 日本, 東京ヴェルディー, 柏レイソル, 栃木SC, 横浜FC, 浦和レッズ, 湘南ベルマーレ
The 2012 season will see the final promotion place from J2 decided by an English Championship-esque play-off, and as the level of the league continues to improve I think it's a very good idea.
The J.League recently announced plans to introduce a play-off system in J2 from the 2012 season, meaning that the teams finishing third to sixth would all be in with a chance of moving up to the top-flight.
While opinion is fairly divided on this – with some asking how the sixth-placed side is likely to fare in J1 when considering the abysmal top-flight form of Avispa Fukuoka, who came third in J2 in 2010 – I am all for it and think that anything which adds to the competitiveness of the second tier is good for the Japanese game.
Avispa have certainly struggled – and nothing short of a miracle will keep them from relegation this year – but prior to them the only side to have moved up to J1 from the final promotion place and been relegated straight away is Shonan Bellmare.
Before this season 11 other teams, including Shonan, had come up in the last available spot and four of them – Reds, Omiya, Kobe and Yamagata – are still there. Four more – Sendai, Cerezo, Sanfrecce and Kofu – went back down but are now re-established in the top-flight, while the final two sides are last year's relegated pair of FC Tokyo and Kyoto Sanga – the former of whom are strong favourites to make a return next season.
Although they have recovered slightly from their far from impressive start to life back in the second division, Tokyo's promotion is definitely not a foregone conclusion though, and the growing competitiveness of J2 was demonstrated by JEF's failure to gain an instant return last year.
JEF's head coach Dwight Lodeweges is well aware of the difficulty in gaining promotion, and insisted before the season that just being a big club is not enough to secure a spot in the top-flight.
"It's not just a name that brings you back or does well or keeps you in J1. We have to do the right things. What I'm trying to do now is to build a foundation but it just doesn't happen like that, it's not just like pushing a button and there you go. We have to do the right things and make the right choices."
Alongside JEF and FC Tokyo this year's J2 also features two more giants of the Japanese game who could be revitalized by a return to the top table, in Tokyo Verdy and Yokohama FC – although both sides are admittedly shadows of their former selves at this moment in time.
Add to these the likes of Tochigi, Sagan Tosu, Tokushima Vortis and Roasso Kumamoto and you have almost half a division who have either the tradition or ability – or both – to make a go of it in J1.
Indeed, the introduction of a play-off system as opposed to three automatic promotion spots may actually help sides with the ambition of gaining promotion.
While, of course, it would be foolish to claim that any team had ever achieved promotion by accident, it could be suggested that some teams have made the step-up after a season of over-achievement – which they had perhaps not fully anticipated before the first ball was kicked.
If teams know that there are twice as many berths available with the potential to take them to J1 though, then they may be able to better equip themselves for life in the top tier if and when they get there.
The instant success enjoyed by Cerezo, Sanfrecce and, so far, Reysol after re-joining J1 backs up this argument, with each team having had promotion as their realistic target throughout their season in the second tier.
Just as importantly, if not more so, play-offs would also add to the excitement in the division by ensuring that more teams actually have something to play for as the season nears its climax. (Relegation, something else that I believe urgently needs to be introduced, would also serve this aim).
Furthermore, just because the sixth-placed team is in with a chance of gaining promotion to J1 it doesn't necessarily mean that they will take it, and they'll still have to beat two of the teams above them to earn the right.
And, anyway, even if they do they can't really do any worse than Avispa, can they?


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About 23 years ago, a researcher by the name of Richard Lenski started a long term experiment. It's still running.
He started with Escherichia coli, a common bacteria in the human intestinal system, though wild versions can cause disease. Every single day, for 23 years, he or one of his lab assistants has extracted E. coli from the flasks in which they are living and placed them into fresh flasks with just a nutrient solution. Every 75 days, or 500 bacteria generations, they deep freeze a population sample from every lineage. They can literally trace the lineage of every single bacterium in their lab.
Not too long ago, they reported something amazing. One of the defining characteristics of E. coli is that the bacteria cannot metabolize citrate. This is so well known and understood that it is used as a test to see if a bacterium is E. coli or Enterobacter aerogenes (for example, which is a soil bacterium). However, when Lenski looked at one of his flasks, which uses citrate in the medium, he saw it was cloudier than normal.
In fact, at about 31,500 generations, one of the populations of E. coli had evolved the ability to metabolize citrate. Now, that's very cool for 2008, but what have you done for me lately?
Oh, it gets better. Remember that they freeze the bacteria every 500 generations. So, one of Lenski's people, started going back and taking some of the old populations and starting them growing again. They found that several populations after generation 20,000 eventually evolved the citrate metabolizing trait. However, no population prior to generation 20k evolved the citrate trait. So, sometime about generation 20k, something happened… something wonderful (bonus points if you can identify the quote).
Again, this was several years ago, so again, I ask, what have you done for me lately?
Enter the latest study from Lenski's lab. Pretty soon, they're just going to make a peer-reviewed journal for lab's work. I need to e-mail Lenski and see if I can get a copy of his report… Nature is rather expensive for a lone blogger (if anyone would like to donate, that would be awesome).
Anyway, remember those frozen samples? Well, they broke those out again… and sequenced the genomes.
What they found was several potentiating mutations. Only the populations whose ancestors had those mutations (two of them) would become citrate users.
The next stage was actualization, that is, the bacteria first became able to utilize citrate. It wasn't a lot and it wasn't very efficient. But those particular bacteria had an epic advantage over any other in their culture. They could use a source of energy that none of their competitors could use. The population exploded, resulting in the cloudiness of the flask.
During this stage, a mutation occurred. This wasn't a simple point mutation, like what occurs to generate sickle cell anemia. This was a complex mutation that literally rearranged a part of the bacterial genome. Part of the genome was copied and two sequences of DNA were linked together in a new way. This change created a new TWO-PART biochemical pathway that allowed citrate to get into the bacterium and then to allow the citrate to be chemically metabolized.
This new protein pathway has never existed before and may never occur in any E. coli population again. It's a combination of improbable chances. But it happened. This is a stunning result.
Oh wait. It can. It did. It's right there. A complex genome rearrangement resulting in two new proteins that create a new multi-protein regulatory module that never existed before.
Now, since this has indeed occurred. It's a perfect opportunity for the IDists. This is the thing that they should have been waiting for with baited breath. This is the one.
Lenski's lab has detailed sequences. They know, to within 75 days, when all these mutations occurred. They know what sequences where changed. They have frozen samples that show all this.
All the IDists have to do is find the evidence that a designer purposefully manipulated the genome. If it happened, then it's in that data, in those organisms, somewhere. Get to work IDists. I won't hold my breath though.
Great paper. Clearly not a ID paper is it has real data, results, mechansims and actual research!
Kevin you are lying again.
Intelligent design does NOT say "Evolution can't develop multiple mutations that don't do anything, but eventually turn into something useful. " ID does not argue against evolution. And tehre isn't any evidence that the mutations were blind and undirected. Not only that the E coli already had the machinery in place to metabolize citrate. They just couldn't get the citrate into their system. So that is what happened. And the way it happened sugegst it occurred, not by chance, but via "built-in responses to environmental cues".
No new protein machinery evolved. Nothing happened that refutes YEC's baraminology.
So Kevin is once again lying about ID and overselling evolutionism.
Joe, Michael Behe says it. You have said it.
This article completely defeats your claim Joe. You made the claim.
Oh and BTW: You are aware that bacteria (and other cells) have built in mutation factors that radically increase the mutation rate when certain environmental ques occur. Is the mutation luck? Arguably yes, Because it's random. Of course, selection isn't random and that's part of your personal problem with evolution.
But we aren't arguing about it, Joe. Honestly, in my experience you know as little about ID as you know about science. And you refuse to engage the IDists who say something that is different than what you say. But that's OK, keep rocking it Joe.
Oh and thanks for admitting you're a YEC. If you write up a post on the evidnece for baraminology, I'll happily share it.
No, Kevin, I NEVER said it And Behe doesn't say it.
And how did I admit I am a YEC? Just because Lenski's experiments support baraminology does NOT mean I am a YEC.
But thanks for exposing your dishonesty.
You being a contributor to a YEC website and your time as "John Paul", plus your support of baraminology and failure to accept an old earth make you a YEC, Joe Gallien.
Only one who accepts the Bible as the authority on things can be a YEC. I do not hold the Bible as any kind of authority. I have no reason to think that earth is only 6,00-12,000 years old.
But yes I helped Luke understand the debate and that was it. And baraminology is supported by the evidence, it isn't supported by me.
Old earth- again the age of the earth depends on how it was formed.
Quality YEC science denying, there. And I'm sure congruent with your favourite, Baraminology!
What science am I denying?
Age of the earth. Lack of evidence for a global flood.
No one knows the age of the earth. Just because you are a fool's fool doesn't mean the science is right. And I don't care about a global flood, however the same evidence is used for a snowball earth.
I've asked this before Joe, what is some of this evidence that supports baraminology? Tell you what, define baraminology and provide 23 broad pieces of evidence that support it.
This experiment- the beak of the finch, anti-biotic resistance- geez I don't know of any evidence that refutes it.
And I thought you knew all about your opponents' positions and yet you are admitting ignorance of baraminology.
Do you know how to use a search engine?
Notice that Kevin did NOT reference any IDists making the claim he said we made?
Also ID does NOT require any designer to manipulate the genome any more than we need a programmer present to manipulate a computer buss. As I have been telling Kevin the manipulation occurs via internal programming- ie "built-in responses to environmental cues".
The mutations- just look how it occurred. And then try to produce a testable hypothesis that is was just blind and undirected processes.
Joe, did you read what I wrote? The description of how this mutation group actually occurred? That is the evidence that you want.
Out of 53,000 generations, there is only one group that developed the ability to utilize citrate. That part is random. We all know it to be true. The problem is that you don't accept the selection part of the equation, which results in those few individuals (or even one) that can utilize citrate having a massive population explosion.
I note that you didn't provide any evidence for your front-loading or built-in-responses.
Isn't it interesting how, if it actually was a 'built-in response to environmental cues' how only one group out of all the millions that exist in Lenski's lab has developed the citrate trait? Isn't it interesting how organisms taken before the 20k generation marker can't develop the citrate trait and that only some organisms from the after 20k generation can?
I read the paer. I do not listen to you as you don't know what you are talking about.
And just because only one group developed the ability does NOT make it random, Kevin.
And again natural selection is a result. It doesn;t do anything.
Also all the timing means is A) it was a difficult problem to solve and B) the starting colony was not the correct population so it took it some time to get going.
Ya see Kevin only ONE bacterium needed to find a solution.
You keep saying things that don't make any sense.
1) your 'evidence' for built in responses is nothing of the kind. Some evidence that E. coli had a built in response that would allow it to begin utilizing citrate in a nutrient poor, citrate high environment would be that all the bacteria started using citrate. Didn't happen that way.
2) "Selection" is a process. I really don't understand why you say that "selection" is a result (other than not knowing how scientists use the word.
Natural selection is the gradual, non-random process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers.
mutation, migration, and genetic drift.
3) The timing is what basically what evolution says should happen. If the problem was "difficult to solve", then the organisms didn't have a built-in response to that environmental cue. Thanks for the own goal there buddy. Your "B" is what evolution says too, therefore it's not discriminatory between evolution and whatever it is that you say.
You're right (shocking) only one bacterium needed to evolve the modified protein pathway. Then it took over the population, just like evolution predicts that it should.
3) you don't understand why it's important something be discriminatory between what ID 'predicts' (there are none) and what evolution predicts.
But that's OK, Keep those own goals coming.
Nope, that is false. Bacteria just need ONE to survive.
I have provided references that say it is a result, including UC Berkley.
You, a known liar on an agenda, definitely don't get to say what ID claims.
Evolutionism doesn't make any predictions.
I have provided references that support what I say about natural selection. YOU have never provided anything but you.
If there wasn't any advantage until the system was completed then natural selection did NOT have a hand in it and it was all sheer dumb uck. And as I said that ain't science.
So unless you or Lenski can demonstrate some advantage along the way then you cannot call upon selection to help you. But then again you don't seem to understand the theory of evolution.
Joe, you still don't understand evolution do you?
Did you read what I wrote. It's called a potentiating mutation. I mentioned that in the article. Perhaps you should read up on gene flow, genetic drift, and the founder effect.
BTW: I'm going to ask here and now, in front of everyone, for you to state your notion of Intelligent Design and your evidence for it. I'd like (but I know you won't) for you to include who you think the designer is (and supporting evidence), when he last acted (and supporting evidence), how he did what he did in his last act (and supporting evidence).
Since we're talking about Lenski's work here. You seem to be claiming that evolution cannot have done what is claimed in Lenski's work. Therefore, you need to show us, how, in all this data, the designer did whatever the designer did.
Let's you start showing some positive evidence for once.
OK genetic drift is NOT natural selection.
You seem to be claiming that evolution cannot have done what is claimed in Lenski's work.
Stop with your cowardly equivocation already. Also I am asking for you to support YOUR claim that it was natural selection and genetic drift that didit. Strange that you cannot do so. It appears all you can do is rely on sheer dumb luck.
That said who the designer is is irrelevant to ID, when it acted and how it acted are also irrelevant. Ya see Kevin before we can answer those questions we first have to determine design and then study it.
That is because reality says that the only way to make any determination about the designer(s) or specific processes used, in the absence of direct observation or designer input, is by studying the design and all relevant evidence.
Now I have told you that many times and you just ignore it because you are obvioulsy ignorant of science.
As for supporting ID, including evidence, I have provided that a planty on my blog and other people have also done so.
No Joe, Genetic Drift is not natural selection. Try to remain on topic here. You made the claim that if a mutation was not advantageous that "it was sheer dumb luck". But it's not "sheer dumb luck" because there are other processes involved.
Joe, That's your second warning on your new sock. My evidence is in Blout's paper. You don't have a single bit of experimental evidence.
If you have indeed shown that evidence, then provide it here. Are you going to describe how you think evolution can't do something, therefore it must be design? That's a logical fallacy Joe. Are you going to describe how you counted the characters in the definition of Aardvark and multiplied by 5 and determined that the definition is specified?
Umm natural selection includes random mutations. And natural selection doesn't do anything, well until there is an advantage. If those poyentiating mutations don't do anything until the rest comes along then NS has nothing to say about them.
Hence RMNS, which is the whole system, Joe.
There wasn't any advantage until the whole system was present. Therefor NS had nothing to do with getting it.
Sorry Joe, this isn't an abiogenisis experiment. Sorry!
Then why do people use RMNS in NS contains RM? Whoops!
Why anyone takes ID seriously enough to even bother refuting it is beyond me.
The Uberkely page you quoted.. here's the sentence immediately in front of the one you quoted.
Second, it's more accurate to think of natural selection as a process rather than as a guiding hand.
Now, we can play dueling quotes all day long. But that's the same thing as your claim that ID isn't anti-evolution. You'll quote mine, I'll refute, it's a big waste of time.
Selection means to select. It is a process of choosing. It is not 100% random. Therefore, your claim is simply wrong.
I understand that you would rather argue about the meaning of words than provide evidence to support your claims. It's OK. I understand you don't have any.
Kevin, Natural selection is the result of three processes and nothing you can say will ever change that fact.
And there isn't any selection taking place- man you are gullible.
If there isn't any selection taking place, why do some reproduce better than others?
Design theory—also called design or the design argument—is the view that nature shows tangible signs of having been designed by a preexisting intelligence. It has been around, in one form or another, since the time of ancient Greece.
IOW ID claims that Complex Specied Information, not Shannon's "mere complexity", is an indicator of agency involvement.
IOW just as archaeologists claim that artifacts require an artist and just as forensic scientists claim a murder requires a murderer, ID claims that CSI requires a designer.
Dembski (2002) has used the term "complex specified information" (CSI) as a synonym for "specified complexity" to help distinguish functional biological information from mere Shannon information–that is, specified complexity from mere complexity. This review will use this term as well.
"How did it come to be this way?" and ID claims that agency involvement was required.
a) Define 'information' in this context.
1) How do you measure the information content of an organism? What units is it in? What do you measure (just the DNA, because then you'll miss some no-DNA directed changes to proteins)? What values indicate "high information content"? Why?
2) Excellent, what is the information content of say yourself? Are you aware the evolution can result in a system that, looking at it without the lens of history, appears to be irreducibly complex? State an irreducibly complex system.
3) Bafflegab. You're assuming what you are trying to show.
4) This isn't a conclusion. It's a claim.
Define "complex specified information". How is it measured/determined/identified. If I provide you with a random sequence and a highly specified sequence, can you use your knowledge of this to determine which is which? Can you show your work?
Forensics and Anthropology know who the designer is. Further those areas of knowledge understand the limits and skill sets (and how they have changed over time) of their designer. Who is the designer of all living things on Earth? What is the evidence to support who you think it is? How does this designer create CSI? When was the last time this designer acted? How do you know? What did the designer do? How do you know? What tools did the deisgner use to do the last thing he did? How do you know?
There. Answer all those and we might actually have a conversation. But I know you can't. Do you know how I know that you can't answer a single one of those questions?
You haven't answered a single one of those questions in over two years Joe. Not in any meaningful way. You know what? Dembski and Meyer can't answer them either. They have been asked for almost a decade… nothing. Total silence.
Here's your chance Joe. Here's your chance to do what no ID proponent has ever done. Show me how to use the notions of Intelligent Design; CSI, information, irreducible design, all that stuff. Walk me through it, step-by-step. Pick an organism. Explain why you picked it. Show us the information content of the organism. Explain the units and why it has 'high' or 'low' information content. If you use the 500bit limit, explain why (keeping in mind that less than 100 random characters also contain 500 bits of information (at least in terms of Shannon Information).
Now, do this here… or admit that you can't. Everything. Don't say "That's not important to ID." Everything in this list is a direct result of YOUR post on ID. Show us.
Show us or walk away and admit you can't.
determine which is which? Can you show your work?
know? What tools did the deisgner use to do the last thing he did?
There. Answer all those and we might actually have a conversation.
single one of those questions?
through it, step-by-step. Pick an organism. Explain why you picked it.
result of YOUR post on ID. Show us.
Umm I hav defined information in this context. I have been over and over this stuff with you. I have done everything you have asked.
I have shown you how to measure biological information. I have done so with an organism. And I have provided you with links to all of that.
OTOH you cannot tell us anything. You cannot tell us how many mutations it took to get a fish-a-pod from a free-swimming fish. You don't even have the guts to take fish embryos, mutate them and see if you can get a fish-a-pod to develop after generations of real selection.
Heck you sit there and say, out of one side of your mouth, that ID is anti-evolution and out of the other you say that the theory of evolution is NOT the blind watchmaker thesis yet the only way ID is anti-evolution is if and only if evolution is defined as the blind watchmaker thesis.
And when that is pointed out to you all you do is try to change the sunject or have me banned or censored.
And yet there isn't a single link to support these claims. This isn't about evolution Joe. It's about ID.
Forget evolution. Fine, you win. Congratulations. Now show us some ID science.
ears, and heavy tail and feeds especially on termites and antsA simple character count reveals 202 characters which translates into 1010 bits of information/ specified complexity.
required and translate that into bits. That is if you want to use CSI.
I have, in my hand, a pen. It's a Pilot G-2, 0.38 point, black pen. You can get a 3-pack for $1.50 at Target. How much information is contained in the pen? Tell me how to calculate or measure it and I will do so. Then you do so and we will compare values.
Does the pen contain more, less, or the same amount of information after I write a word on a piece of paper. If I take the rubber hand-grip off, does the pen have more or less information. What happens if I put the rubber hand-grip back on, does it contain more or less information.
Let's go Joe. Tell me how to do this. Don't worry about it being too complex, I'm sitting next to three people with Master's degrees in mathematics and I can pick up the phone and call 6 or 7 people with Ph.D.s in statistics. I can handle the math. Just tell me how to do it.
The amount of information in the pen is the amount it take to make it, just as I said. Are you saying that you cannot follow simple directions?
And once you reah 500 bits you have determined the pen was designed. Congratulations.
Why don't your mathematicians tell us how many mutations it takes to get a human from a knuckle-walker/ quadraped?
No joe, you have never measured "biological information with" (or in) an actual organism. You have only made a fool of yourself by claiming that the "biological information" in an organism is measured by counting the bits or letters (or whatever) in a very general dictionary definition of an organism. And you have run away when you have been asked many times if the amount of "biological information" in the organism itself would be any different if the dictionary definition contained different wording or if the same definition were written in a different language .
So joe, which one of these animals has the most "biological information" in it? Is it the one with the most letters in its definition?
1. A burrowing mammal (Orycteropus afer) of southern Africa, having a stocky, hairy body, large ears, a long tubular snout, and powerful digging claws.
4. a large, nocturnal, burrowing mammal,Orycteropus afer, of central and southern Africa, feeding on ants and termites and having a long, extensile tongue, strong claws, and long ears.
And which one of these organisms has the most "biological information" in it? Is it the one with the most letters in its name?
You've got NO room to complain about changing the subject or being banned or censored. You constantly change the subject, you regularly ban and censor people on your anti-evolution blog, and you have no problem with UD (your favorite sanctuary) sanctimoniously banning and censoring many people who have questioned or challenged ID or just didn't answer a loaded stupid question the way barry arrington demanded they answer it. Besides, you actually deserve to be banned from the entire internet due to your deplorable behavior on every site you infest.
That's a very sciency reference, FK. Nothing says "quality research" quite like an opening sentence full of insults.
It looks like just an abstract, though – do you have a link to the full article? You know, the thing with all the positive evidence you (or Joe G, whoever he is) are hinting at?
Back to school for synergy and emergence, I think. Of course the extension of this is that ID holds that components can never form systems. Rivers, streams lakes and oceans must be designed.
Oh dear, Richie doesn't know what a testable hypothesis is. You know ID would go away if someone could support evolutionism….
Thanks for admitting its a negative argument. Not science! next?
Thanks for admitting you are still clueless- Yes the design inference mandates eliminating evolutionism. But it still has to meet the criteria, ie the positive evidence. Just as with archaeology and forensics.
And stop using the word "science" as it is obvious that you have no idea what it means.
" Yes the design inference mandates eliminating evolutionism" – great. so It's not science and is a wholly negative argument. Next?
Frisbee now is you chance: If you say that the mutations weren't random you must mean that they were guided… If so please identify the guiding system (agent), show how it acted in the Ara-3 population and in contrast please show how it failed to act in other colonies.
Lastely for bonus points please indicate the nature (chemical, natural or other) of the agency involved in determining mutation.
The guiding system is the internal program. And maybe it was working in the others but they didn't find the solution. You have to remember the bacteria of today are well removed from the originally designed bacteria. So I wouldn't expect them to react as if they were.
It all comes down to the OoL- if the OoL was designed then organisms were designed to evolve/ evolved by design. And gene duplications and recombinations would be design mechanisms.
And no one determines anything. Just as the programmer of the GA used to find a specific antenna configuration didn't list the steps, just the solution, the designer need not determine anything.
So, here you are saying that evolution and everything about it works. Your magical designer just started life on Earth.
So Lenski's experiments do show evolution.
If they don't then either A) the information isn't front-loaded or B) the designer does intercede often. Which is it? because Behe has said that the Lenski experiments don't show evolution.
Now, for the other part, how about I provide you with a genome. Since all the information is front-loaded (it must be otherwise, you must accept evolution in all its particulars), then I'll provide you with a complete genome. Heck, I'll even give you a complete genome that was designed and you tell us all the future abilities of the genome.
It's called 'prediction' and evolution has it, ID doesn't… unless you show us it does.
Again, Intelligent Design is NOT anti-evolution. And your strawman means nothing.
So why don't you tell us how it was determined the blind watchmaker didit- and Behe has said, and I quoted, that Lenski's experiments show evolution. The experiments show how trivial it appears to be.
So stop lying about Behe.
Hi joe g (frisbee_kid), I see that you're down to your usual game of not providing any positive arguments or evidence for ID, and are still expecting scientists to prove every evolutionary step or process from the beginning of time right up to the present day, and if they can't ID 'wins'!
Why is it that you always runaway from challenges and questions? Don't you have any confidence in your position? I would think that you would jump at the chance to demonstrate the alleged explanatory power and predictive abilities of the 'ID inference'. Instead, you just attack evolutionary theory, move the goal posts, construct and swat at strawmen, redefine words to fit your bald assertions, ignore correction and everything else that conflicts with your beliefs and agenda, play every childish game imaginable, and get belligerent or even threatening when you don't get your way. Wouldn't it be a lot more productive if you would stick to supporting your position and could actually do so?
I'm sure you will come back with the worn out claim that evolutionary scientists and science enthusiasts have no evidence and do nothing but attack ID, but that would be ignoring mountains of well established scientific evidence and the enormous knowledge that has been acquired and shared by thousands to millions of hard working professional scientists and others who study nature day and night around the world and even in space.
And speaking of your position joe, I'm wondering what scientific research you're doing on the OOL? Will you please describe the scientific methods and tools you're using to determine how life came about? Will you describe in detail the novel evidence your research has produced and the novel predictions you have made and can make based on your research and evidence? If it's easier for you maybe you could just point me to all the papers you've authored that have been published in scientific journals. I'm very excited about the prospect of seeing the revealing results of your vast scientific research.
Hi TWT, I've eliminated Joe. I'm just tired of dealing with him. We've been having the exact same argument, using the exact same words since early 2010 and other shave doing the exact same thing for longer with him.
Sorry you missed the fun.
If he had provided the actual evidence he claimed to have or answered any of the questions anyone asked, then I would have let him stay.
I'd rather have a low comment count than deal with Joe anymore. If he decides to actually answer those questions or deal with the issues, then he can post it at After the Bar Closes and if it's good enough, I'll even post it here and all him back to defend his work.
We both know he'll never do it though.
Hi Smilodon, I realize that joe got the boot (good riddance) but I still wanted to respond to some of his remarks. I know that joe won't listen or change his ways but I was also thinking of the 'onlookers' when I responded to what joe said. And like you said, joe can always respond to me or anyone else on ATBC.
By the way, you're doing a great job here.
BTW Everyone, remember you can upvote and downvote comments with the up and down carat symbols underneath a comment.
That would be caret rather than carat which a measurement of weight. Also one term you used was 'baited breath' which should be 'bated breath'.
that is not due to heritable random variation.
that whatever is good enough gets through.
So, you've almost successfully described how evolution works.
Umm,,, just out of curiosity, where you aware that the citrate was used in the growth medium as a chelating agent, I believe to remove certain ions, and not as a 'selection pressure'? Not, I guess you didn't realize that the point of this 23 year experiment was NOT to evolve a bacterium that could consume citrate. That was just a happy accident.
E. coli as a species23.
BTW: I note that you haven't answered a single question posed to you yet. You're running out of time. You've made claims and statements, it's your turn to start talking about them.
I'm not going to spend the rest of this blog defending scientists from a former toaster repairman. It's time to start defending your position. That list of questions is a good start. If you can't answer those questions, then there's not much point in continuing.
Even if you completely and utterly discredit evolution in this thread (which you are in no danger of doing), it doesn't mean that ID is correct. Only positive supporting evidence can do that. Some of that supporting evidence would be doing something useful with ID.
Start doing something useful or admit you can't.
Kevin, Anything in its environment would be a selection pressure. And the fact that it was not the sole selection pressure or the sole source for nutrition is why not all in the colony needed or attempted to change.
And again science mandates that ID eliminate necessity and chance regardless of if evolutionism existed.. And we have provided supporting, ie positive, evidence. You don't seem to know what evidence is.
And you can't understand that I am specifically refuting points you, yourself make.
You stated that citrate was an artificial selection pressure APPLIED BY LENSKI. That is not true. The citrate was in the flasks because E. coli doesn't use it. Not to create an artificial selection pressure or anything else.
Tell, you want though. Let's get back to ID. What did the designer do to make the E. coli able to utilize citrate in Lenski's lab?
1- Did Lenski put the citrate in the flasks?
2- Is what in the environment part of the selection pressure?
And it doesn't matter what it was for. The fact remains it was present and the bacteria obvioulsy reacted to it because it was present, ie in the environment, which means it is a selection pressure. anything in the environemnt is a selection pressure Kevin.
And designer gave bacteria the ability to react to its surroundings- just as I have been telling you. DESIGNED TO EVOLVE/ EVOLVED BY DESIGN.
BTW: Did you ever ask Mike Behe why he thinks ID doesn't have a mechanism. You keep saying that design is a mechanism.
Or is that you don't think that design has a mechanism and Behe does think it is a mechanism. I never can keep all that straight, because Behe has said both… in court… under oath. So which is it, is design a mechanism? Seems kind of funny to say that selection isn't a mechanism when you also claim that design is a mechanism. Of course the reverse is true too.
Oh wait, right below this you say that selection is mechanistic. So is it design that's not mechanistic? Sorry dude, you're just confusing. You might want to learn what these words actually mean and use them correctly.
Sorry, but Behe stopped being a legitimate source scientific information about 15 years ago.
YOU have never been a source for scientific information. Design is a mechanism by definition. Don't blame me because definitions confuse you.
So, let me know when you explain to Michael Behe why he's wrong. I'd like to see it.
Umm just because Intelligent Design does not say does not mean that they do not exist. So Behe was right. And so am I.
ID is NOT about the specific mechanism. And what Behe says in no way negates the FACT that design is a mechanism BY DEFINITION.
And guess what? Artificial selection is a design mechansism. Genetic engineering is a design mechansim. A targeted search is a design mechanism. Just because ID is silent on the toic doesn't mean we have to be, duh.
This post was from March 2010. OM asked you how much information was in an actual aardvark (not the definition of 'aardvark'). You did not respond with a value. Nor did you respond with a method for obtaining the value.
Later, you were asked in an aardvark had just eaten a bunch of ants, how did that change the information content of the animal. You've never answered that Joe.
When you measure the information in an organism, do you only measure the genome? If so, you lose a lot because there are non-genome based changes to proteins that can occur. How does ID handle this Joe?
It's been almost 30 months Joe. Stand up and defend ID.
And yes I know we are mssing information by just measuring the genome but your position cannot account for the genome let alone all the other stuff too.
I am more than defended ID. I have exposed you lies and strawmen along the way.
You still haven't supported your claims in this OP- you have not referenced any IDist making the claim you said.
And yet, there still isn't any information on how to calculate the information contained in an aardvark.
This is so beyond me now Joe. This is all about you. Congratulations, you have successfully defeated the materialist Darwinist sympathizer.
or admit you don't have a clue.
Please be specific and tell me what is wrong with my instructions. r is being a little baby still the best you have?
And you do realize that if you could just support evolutionism ID would go away- Newton's four rules of scientific investigation and all.
This is my absolute favorite own goal from Joe.
Again, Intelligent Design is NOT anti-evolution.
I think we're done here with Joe.
He still refuses to teach us anything at all about ID. After having most of the day (and a dozen comments or so) we still don't know how to done the measuring and calculating he claims that he's not only done, but done several times.
Now he's descending into personal attacks. So Joe, I'll give you one more chance. I'll even post the complete list of instructions and examples on this blog as a guest post. But your next post had better a complete description of how to calculate or measure the information, CSI, etc for a complete organism. You said you have done it.
Now explain it. Put up or shut up, Joe. Last chance.
To everyone else: I've been having these exact same conversations with JoeG for over 30 months now. They haven't changed and since March of 2010 his sum total of calculations is adding up the letters in the definition of the word aardvark, then multiplying by 5. That's it.
If you can do the things you claimed to Joe, then you can continue. Otherwise, we're done.
Umm evolution is one thing. Evolutionism is another. And perhaps you are incapable of learning as you don't seem to understand natural selection.
And Kevin, you should look in the mirror- because you are describing yourself- unable to learn and only able to misrepresent. You ban me because I expose your lies- you still haven't supported your claim wrt Intelligent Design and this experiment.
That's what I thought. Bye Joe. Don't come back and don't sock it up. almost 3 years and you still can't describe how to do the one thing that you claim ID can do.
Sorry if I am going over old ground here, as I have not read every comment.
I have to pick Frisbee_kid up on something here (the man does rational disservice to the sport of ultimate, which I used to play a lot of).
It seems he is claiming E Coli have built in enviromental cues. This is patently ridiculous as the environments, given the sheer volume of specimens in the same environment, have remained consistent. The cues, if they are deigned in, would react, like any situation-action machine, to a given input in order to produce a given output. This has clearly not happened since it took generation upon generation for the citrate ability to materialise. This is only predictable on a randomised model of change to the organism. There really is no other rational explanation (let's face it, kid's theory is nothing more than a definition of ad hoc) for the sudden and apparently random development of the new ability.
It is simple causality. I can only see kid's reactions here in light of a presuppositional approach to disbelieving evolution. Without that outrageous bias, evolution provides the obvious answer.
Look, I was never a particularly avid believer or non-believer until more recent years. In fact, I used to be a Christian. But I learnt science without thinking I had a need to fulfill a conclusion that I had already made. Which is why I simply cannot understand people who deny evolution, apart from in the context of necessity due to other beliefs. Sad really.
It reminds me of my theologian mate who wouldn't believe evolution and wouldn't take heed of any of the evidence or arguments from me. He used to spout stuff similar to Kid. One day he got into an email conversation with Simon Conway-Morris, the famous theistic evolutionary biologist. After that, and on hearing THE SAME arguments but from a person of perceived authority, he became a theistic evolutionist himself.
It's a shame that beliefs are led more usually by psychology and cognitive dissonance than by an honest search and appraisal of evidence.
Joe is gone. Again, I don't do this lightly, review his thread at AtBC if you like.
If one person (who isn't a sock) will recommend that he be allowed to post, then I will allow it.
I've had many conversations with creationists. Some where even productive and I've had to ban any of them. Just Joe.
Did you guys take a look at the supplementary information to the paper. It has alot of very interesting information.
I have a question regarding the paper.
I noticed that on the suplementary information figure 2 indicates increase in information (size of genome) for CIT+ am i correct in saying this?
Does table 9 also indicate this increase?
My understanding is that there was a gene duplication event.
The paper specifically mentions duplications like this and being ways that the same function can continue AND the gene be mutated to do something else.
In the classical sense, then yes, the information has increased. Since creationists deny that it happened, I don't know if the information increased by their definition… whatever that is.


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