RE: Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
March 30, 2013 at 12:51 pm
(March 30, 2013 at 3:57 am)Aractus Wrote: No. What your say makes about as much sense as theorizing that entropy has a 50% chance of creating randomness when crystallization occurs. Crystallization ignores entropy, it is ordered - order is created from chaos. The rules that might normally apply outside of it don't apply to it. The same is true for evolution. Evolution is about "building". You can't build something big if you're always expending all your resources rebuilding your structure. Thus while it may play a *role* in evolution it isn't the process and it is only minor compared to the overall process.
But I'm not saying that it's a 50 percent chance.
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your point here, but it seems to me that what you're saying is that every time a species evolves, something gets added to them that increases their complexity; they evolve eyes, more complex means of locomotion, intelligence, etc. Is that right?
But evolution is just change. An organism suddenly mutates in a small way; maybe it's beneficial, maybe it's harmful, maybe it's benign. Maybe a small burrowing rodent is born with a defect: non-functioning eyes. Since it lives by burrowing into the ground, it doesn't need its eyes that much in order to survive and propagate, and may even derive a small benefit from them. Thus, succeeding generations from that rat will also have a tendency to be born with non-functioning eyes until the organ withers away. That's still evolution, even though it prunes away unneeded appendages and reduces the complexity of the organism.
Unless of course you have a different definition of complexity.
