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Author Topic:   Can Natural Selection Produce Intelligent Design?
Lizard Breath
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Message 24 of 75 (233243)
08-14-2005 8:49 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by crashfrog
08-13-2005 1:14 PM


Complexity
It kinda fits your response to me on this a few weeks back.
Because of the abundance of complexity, the evidence agaist ID is apparent. Intellegence cannot produce complexity. Intellegence is restrained within the world of complexity.
Complexity is a by-product of evolution which is a bi-product of space/time, and energy expenditure from the Big Bang.
Intellegence can produce design, and the design may resemble complexity on a very superficial level. A microprocessor attempts to resemble complexity but only to the degree that a cloud can momentarily resemble a car or a plane.
True complexity as in the human brain can only be achieved through mutation, chance and selection over the onward march of time. To suggest that the incredible complexity of our natural world could be the result of intellegence and design is like saying that you could carve Mt. Rushmore with a toy squirt gun, a gallon of water and a free afternoon.

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