RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
February 22, 2015 at 1:26 am
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2015 at 1:27 am by YGninja.)
(February 22, 2015 at 1:22 am)Esquilax Wrote:(February 22, 2015 at 1:14 am)YGninja Wrote: I don't believe there is such a mechanism which could turn a single cell into a human being over the course of billions of years. Certainly not natural selection acting on mutation.
Why not? It's already established science that when cells replicate, transcription errors known as mutation occur, and that the natural environment selects for or against those mutations via the resultant organism's suitability for that environment; why don't you think that's sufficient? We know that it happens, what force or mechanism are you proposing that would stop it happening at a certain, arbitrary level based on human defined morphological labels like species?
The mutations observed are almost exclusively negative or neutral. Data is corrupted or deleted. Natural selection can act on it as much as it wants, the thing is only ever going to devolve. Whats more, you need a mechanism to increase the quantity of data. Mutation only changes existing data. A human contains alot more data than a single cell, and you've no mechanism to explain how the genome can acquire such quantities of new data, even over billions of years.
