RE: Creation vs. Evolution
March 27, 2009 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2009 at 1:34 pm by Demonaura.)
I think the whole thing lies in your perception of 'information'. ABC and ABCABC have no relation. They are different and if you get ABCABC from a creature that had ABC the ABCABC IS new.
One person I've seen speak very well on this is AronRa on Youtube, hes a paleontologist in Texas U.S.A. Relevant video linked below, an interesting one at that.
His example is like this, genetics works like our alphabet, theres various core building blocks at the lowest of levels (letters) that assemle themselves in new and different ways to create genetic senquences (words). so I can take a set of letters S I P E N and do this: SPINE, SNIPE. Two words, completely different but, made of the same things. Are these words the same?
We can also observe this in atoms. Steel is different from air right? Of course it is but, steel and air are both made of the exact same things. Protons, neutrons and electrons that assemble themselves in different ways to create new materials in the same way these genetic fibres assemble themselves to create completely new traits in creatures. The same core things literally take on entirely new properties when they come together in different ways. Which I find amazing btw, very cool stuff.
Also, to my knowledge theres no limit to the number of genetic sequences a species can have, you become a new species if you add one but, since we now know that ABC and ABCABC will have completely different and possibly even unrelated results this means there is an infinite ammount of canvas to create new species, and traits with.
Hope I made sense, Let me know if I missed anything Adrian this is not always my best topic.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-7d06HJ...95&index=7 - AronRa, part of a series on evolution and creationisim.)
One person I've seen speak very well on this is AronRa on Youtube, hes a paleontologist in Texas U.S.A. Relevant video linked below, an interesting one at that.
His example is like this, genetics works like our alphabet, theres various core building blocks at the lowest of levels (letters) that assemle themselves in new and different ways to create genetic senquences (words). so I can take a set of letters S I P E N and do this: SPINE, SNIPE. Two words, completely different but, made of the same things. Are these words the same?
We can also observe this in atoms. Steel is different from air right? Of course it is but, steel and air are both made of the exact same things. Protons, neutrons and electrons that assemble themselves in different ways to create new materials in the same way these genetic fibres assemble themselves to create completely new traits in creatures. The same core things literally take on entirely new properties when they come together in different ways. Which I find amazing btw, very cool stuff.
Also, to my knowledge theres no limit to the number of genetic sequences a species can have, you become a new species if you add one but, since we now know that ABC and ABCABC will have completely different and possibly even unrelated results this means there is an infinite ammount of canvas to create new species, and traits with.
Hope I made sense, Let me know if I missed anything Adrian this is not always my best topic.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-7d06HJ...95&index=7 - AronRa, part of a series on evolution and creationisim.)
