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Author Topic:   Natural selection forced complexity to increase?
Dr_Tazimus_maximus
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Message 3 of 13 (17082)
09-10-2002 10:42 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by Peter
09-10-2002 8:13 AM


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Originally posted by Peter:
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Originally posted by Andya Primanda:
Just a moment...
'We show that, because natural selection forces genomes to behave as a natural "Maxwell Demon," within a fixed environment, genomic complexity is forced to increase.'
I was referred to this article by some anticreationist website trying to refute W. Dembski's information challenge. However, I cannot grasp what this means. What the hell is a Maxwell Demon and why does it increases complexity?

I found this::
http://www.maxwellian.demon.co.uk/name.html

Cool paper and cool site on Maxwells Demon. My thanks to you both.
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Taz

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