Re: [Phys-l] Intelligent designists fight back

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

At 12:19 PM 1/9/2008, Robert Cohen, you wrote inter alia:
> ..The idea of irreducible
> complexity ... is being used to
> argue that the process of evolution, as it is currently understood, is
> statistically unlikely to result in many of the organisms we currently
> observe. ...
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Robert A. Cohen, Department of Physics, East Stroudsburg University

I seem to have it that the direction in which organisms evolve
is (always?) to greater complexity with time.
A person who has been exposed to a ridiculously simple
computational analog, the Genetic Algorithm, which mixes
and matches competing design specifications,
 and throws in an odd mutation, marking each iteration with
 a fitness criterion - is unlikely to be convinced by ideas of
Irreducible Complexity, nor need much convincing that time
can promote many wonderful features.


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!