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RE: The Missing Link and the Irreducible Complexity of the Eye
May 6, 2017 at 3:37 pm
(May 6, 2017 at 3:31 pm)Cyberman Wrote: My bad; I really should have cited a source. I got it from here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Notable_Ch...of_Species
However this might be a better source: http://darwin-online.org.uk/Variorum/186...-1861.html
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RE: The Missing Link and the Irreducible Complexity of the Eye
May 6, 2017 at 5:12 pm
The irreducible complexity of the eye was one of the first things I had a problem with when I got interested in evolution.
It didn't take much research to understand it better though. I didn't actually get the idea from any creationists, it was just my own thought that I didn't understand what an eye could have evolved from. With a bit of research I understood it that there's lots of different types of light and sound sensors on all different kinds of animals, some being more complex/advanced than others.
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RE: The Missing Link and the Irreducible Complexity of the Eye
May 6, 2017 at 5:54 pm
About fifteen years ago, before I got involved with this stuff, there was a letter in a local free newspaper about the impossibility of the human eye evolving. I had never heard of Richard Dawkins at this point, nor any of the major players we now take for granted. Even then, I managed to work out in my head the sort of evolutionary sequence that might have occurred, from light-sensitive cells to fully-formed eyes.
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RE: The Missing Link and the Irreducible Complexity of the Eye
May 6, 2017 at 7:08 pm
The problem fundies have is getting all that change through time into only 6,021 years. In order to "stay on topic" they can't use a longer time. Granted that is a mere clock tick in geological time, but we've created the Great Dane and chihuahua in less time than that.
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RE: The Missing Link and the Irreducible Complexity of the Eye
May 7, 2017 at 10:16 am
(May 6, 2017 at 7:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:So why do we speak of the missing link as if it’s still missing?
Because creatards are fucking morons.
Hmmm? Then perhaps what's missing is actually from their heads. A neuron or two?
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RE: The Missing Link and the Irreducible Complexity of the Eye
May 7, 2017 at 10:32 am
The evolution of the eye and the descent of humans and chimpanzees is too irreducibly complex a subject for most I.D.iots.
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RE: The Missing Link and the Irreducible Complexity of the Eye
May 7, 2017 at 5:15 pm
houseflies make do with remarkably poor vision
LOL, without glasses, I do too (legally blind 20/200+)
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