You seem to be confusing abiogenesis with evolution...see the Origin of Life thread.
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Well - nitpicking and cheating, true - but I read the story as indicating a principle, for which simplicity is a benefit. OK, you can make a multivibrator with two transistors, but my first point was that something 'new' had emerged. Creationists argue strongly that micro-evolution - 'improving' a species - is possible, but that a new 'vital' organ cannot be generated, so a 'new' animal cannot be evolved. Here we have a radio receiver where before we had a signal generator.
My second point was not that the design was hard, but that it was done without directed design, by evolution, rather than by intention. This is surely also of relevance to the evolution/creation debate. Evolutionary pressures just made use of the induced AM oscillations you mentioned would be in the environment.
Here you have all the components required-the transistors did not pop up from a morass of metal. This is the evolution of something which uses material already existent. Classifying linking up of transistors in the same class as macroevolution of new organs is quite a leap.
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