| Re: With all the erudition of a drunken 15 year old...... "The chances are equal to a tornado going through a junkyard and putting together a Boeing 747"
Evolution, CATEGORICALLY, does not operate like this. It's a common argument and holds absolutley no water for various reasons. I'd also be impressed if you could offer me any serious argument or evidence against evolution stemming from quantum physics.
Back to the 747 argument;
First of all evolution proceeds in tiny, tiny increments - each a small and RANDOM improvement on the last. Their is no final 'plan'. In a proverbial 'nutshell', tiny genetic changes occur at random and if they are beneficial they are passed down through generations. Once the organism is 'genetically distinct' enough from it's ancestors we call it a new 'species'. The evidence for this is all around you, not least in your very badly designed body. Ever had back pain? We're not brilliantly put together for being bipeds. Ever had an allergy? When you're older you may have trouble pissing because (assuming you are male) your urethra passes through your prostate gland, which is subject to inflammation. Give me the name of one engineer who would design a system in which a collapsable tube (your urethra) passes through an inflatable component (your prostate). It's bad design. But that's because it wasn't designed.
If you even only have a general grounding in genetics, evolution, far from being 'absurd', is so obviously the case that it's hardly even worth considering any other argument.
Try reading 'The Blind Watchmaker' by Richard Dawkins. He takes the 747 argument and tears it into tiny pieces. |