Walter ReMine

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Walter ReMine is a retired electrical engineer, lecturer, and intelligent design advocate best known for his self-published book The Biotic Message, which is his attempt at popularisation of Haldane's dilemma, which he claims was never solved, and for his founding of "Discontinuity Systematics," better known as baraminology.

ReMine claims that he embraces the scientific method, avoids all forms of religious argument and, to help make his points, cites only leading mainstream scientists. The Biotic Message claims to illuminate various "illusions", such as the testability of macroevolutionary theory; since "microevolution" is an arbitrary distinction not made by traditional evolutionary theory, this argument is contested. ReMine offers an alternative hypothesis which he calls "message theory."

ReMine gave a brief summary of his "message theory" in an online debate[1] over molecular evidence of evolution with Dave Thomas, a debate co-hosted by the New Mexicans for Science and Reason and the Twin Cities Creation Science Association. He stated that, according to his message theory, life is designed to satisfy three traits:

for survival,
to look like the product of one designer, and not multiple independent designers, and
to resist all other explanations, including Darwin's, Lamarck's, Gould's, Hoyle's, etc.

These suggestions are mostly Straw man arguments and easily refutable.