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Walter ReMine is an Intelligent Design theorist and researcher, best known for his book, The Biotic Message; and for advancing Haldane's Dilemma and error catastrophe, (which he identifies as "major unsolved problems in evolutionary genetics"); for his founding of Discontinuity Systematics, and Message Theory; and for his detailed descriptions of various "illusions" commonly held about the data and evolutionary theory.^[1] The book has received impressive reviews from notable people in the Intelligent Design movement,^[2] though has been largely ignored by evolutionists, especially in printed form.^[3]

ReMine avoids religious arguments, and insists the case for Intelligent Design is sufficient based on scientific evidence alone, with abundant quotations from leading evolutionists as his support on key points.^[4] He embraces testability (falsifiability, vulnerability, risk) as an especially important value in science, just as the vast majority of evolutionists and mainstream scientists do.^[5] He argues that macro-evolutionary theory as practiced today is not testable, and therefore it fails to qualify as science, under the same criteria evolutionists endorsed in all their court cases.^[6] This approach sets him apart from most other proponents of Intelligent Design and creation.

He offers an alternative called "Message Theory" for explaining the major patterns of biology in a scientifically testable manner.^[7] He claims Message Theory accurately predicts which biological patterns should exist, and should not exist.^[8] Message Theory asserts that life was reasonably designed for three simultaneous goals: (1) survival, (2) to look like the product of a single designer (rather than multiple designers acting independently), and (3) to resist all other explanations, including Darwin's, Lamarck's, Gould's, Syvanen's, Hoyle's, Crick's, etcetera.^[9] The biotic message says, "Life is the product of a single designer - life was intentionally designed to resist all other explanations." ^[10] This third goal, of resisting all evolutionary theories (not just Darwin's theory), is responsible for raising the more surprising predictions of Message Theory.^[11] Message Theory emphasizes that life is designed to meet these three goals simultaneously.^[12] A common misconception about the theory arises from viewing one goal in isolation of the others.

In short, ReMine aggressively argues that Message Theory is scientific, and macro-evolutionary theory is not.^[13] His distinctive approach is aimed at those who seek a strictly scientific, non-religious, discussion of the origins debate.^[14]

ReMine founded Discontinuity Systematics for the observation and classification of a particular biological pattern.^[15] He emphasized that the methodology is scientific, neutral, unbiased toward either creation or evolution, and focuses foremost on observation and classification, not explanation. Other researchers took the terminology and methods of ReMine's Discontinuity Systematics, and added religious assumptions and an emphasis on religiously-based explanations, to found "Baraminology". ReMine objects to those religious additives as counter-productive, and often unscientific. In practice, however, the two fields overlap or intersect, with various practitioners adopting one or the other label for themselves.

Walter ReMine received BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1974 and 1977. He studied signal processing and pattern recognition, along with a strong mathematical background, which would later assist him in studying life's biological patterns and recognizing their meaning.^[16]

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External links

• Publisher's website, with a place for ReMine's discussion pages
• Introduction to Haldane's Dilemma, by ReMine
• ReMine's web updates on Haldane's Dilemma
• A video interview with Walter ReMine