tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11400973.post113562492625314942..comments2023-10-15T05:52:44.215-07:00Comments on _6502_: ahhhhh... so I was right!6502http://www.blogger.com/profile/05363357723920755709noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11400973.post-1137415980469608482006-01-16T04:53:00.000-08:002006-01-16T04:53:00.000-08:00This is exactly how natural selection is supposed ...This is exactly how natural selection is supposed to work. However that self-defence system is not just a little on/off part, but a combination of parts of which none is useful for anything in isolation. Moreover even with the proper machinery in place just an small unbalancing of the factors - i.e. a numeric change in the proportions - becomes easily lethal.<BR/>The probability that all those changes happened at the same time by chance is so low that assuming this is the explanation is more or less like assuming that if you find a pile of 20 quarters balancing after an earthquake it happened by chance.<BR/>I don't know if I like the ID idea (that someone actually placed the things in order), but for sure to me natural selection alone is not an acceptable explanation.<BR/>The sad part is that it's hard to find serious discussions on the topic. The pro-evolutions normally just make jokes instead of providing credible answers, and the anti-evolutions are unfortunately geometrically close to groups that basically ask you to shut off your brain and just have faith.6502https://www.blogger.com/profile/05363357723920755709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11400973.post-1136314297288999662006-01-03T10:51:00.000-08:002006-01-03T10:51:00.000-08:00Well if you look at a human body then there are a ...Well if you look at a human body then there are a lot of other 'features' that are extremely complex. Just the blood circulation system in itself for example. Heart, veins etc etc... But it wasnt created in a few generations. Took billions of years. It is not as if suddenly we had blood vessels and needed some mechanism to control clotting. The clotting ability evolved together with the whole blood circulation system. Maybe the very first microscopic organisms that had anything resembling blood vessels died every time they got a cut, but they were reproducing at a very high rate so enough survived and over time clotting mechanism evolved? Just a theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11400973.post-1135667091580664642005-12-26T23:04:00.000-08:002005-12-26T23:04:00.000-08:00I couldn't help notice how much the opposition to ...I couldn't help notice how much the opposition to ID is made up with just ridiculization (mostly in the form of straw man tecniques). I didn't know anything about the ID debate in US until a couple of days ago, but so far after reading proposers and opposers of the explanation and after reading the trials recording about impeachment of Prof. Behe my impression is that opposers to ID don't have much real to say. Note, btw, that I really can't call myself a believer (I'm not) and that I personally don't see in ID a support of the christian view. As a math guy calling for someone to help does mean something different that requiring someone infinitely powerful, that lasted forever and created space and time and that requires you to bow and pray on sunday (or saturday or friday, for that matter) otherwise your aethernal soul will burn in the flames for eternity.<BR/>So far I'm reading about self-organization, may be that's a viable alternative theory. Surely it scares me the oppositors of ID just can't do anything but boo and hiss. I suppose in another age you'd propose to burn Prof. Behe because you don't like what he says...6502https://www.blogger.com/profile/05363357723920755709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11400973.post-1135652552743634762005-12-26T19:02:00.000-08:002005-12-26T19:02:00.000-08:00So, down with evolution, and up with your Cousin V...So, down with evolution, and up with your Cousin Vinny did it instead?<BR/><BR/>You obviously have no sense of how ridiculous you sound.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04657775033793109297noreply@blogger.com