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Author Topic:   "How can organisms be so exquisitely complex, if evolution is completely random"
Taz
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Message 6 of 8 (488711)
11-15-2008 2:38 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by iano
11-13-2008 4:23 PM


Who the hell is rgb? What does it stand for?
Anyway, not all of evolution is random.
"The discovery answers an age-old question that has puzzled biologists since the time of Darwin: How can organisms be so exquisitely complex, if evolution is completely random, operating like a 'blind watchmaker'?" said Chakrabarti, an associate research scholar in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton. "Our new theory extends Darwin's model, demonstrating how organisms can subtly direct aspects of their own evolution to create order out of randomness."
Iano, let me clue you on something. When scientists talk like this, they're not necessarily talking about the technical aspects of it. In other words, you could see it as half joking.
I interpret that quote to mean he's saying we've found one more aspect of evolution that isn't random.
A few years ago, I read an article in a scientific journal about an experiment that went wrong. A group of paleontology students built a model of a flying dino from the jurassic period. The model had motors attached so the thing was suppose to fly under it's own battery power. After they launched it, something went wrong with the motor and the thing crashed. During a press conference, the professor remarked that scientists have always wondered how this creature flew because of its design or why it went extinct, but now both of those questions seemed to have been answered.
I'm willing to bet you're one of those who would use the professor's one quote to somehow argue that scientists doubt the creature ever existed or that the creature ever flew at all.
iano writes:
b) why do you think your answer wouldn't satisfy experts in the field? Or to put it another way; what do you know that they apparently didn't up to now?
You impress me by your denseliness. Somehow, you've focused into a single quote and interpret that to mean the experts don't know anything about the subject.
Edited by Taz, : No reason given.
Edited by Taz, : damn it, keep finding grammar and spelling mistakes

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