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Originally Posted by captain swoop
Who says evolution creates more complexity?
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Originally Posted by tsig
We seem to have unearthed one of the central errors of the anti-evolution crowd, that evolution has some direction.
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Originally Posted by Fortis
I'm guessing that you don't read New Scientist? Only a few weeks ago they had an article on the top 10 misconceptions that people have about evolution. Increasing complexity was one of them...
Do you have a source for the increasing complexity?
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Never stated evolution must provide increased complexity.... in fact my argument is exact oppisite, evolution would seemingly create more and more disorder, a world of mutts. So does this mean ape is more 'complex' than human? How does intellect factor in?
Go ahead and feverishly post to expose my 'misconception'. And I'm the one accused of focusing on one word while misunderstanding the whole concept.
Again, were getting way off topic, too many details, can't see the forest for the trees.
What I would like to address,,,
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In the Beginning
Dr. Peebles of Princeton, who has often acted as the conscience of the cosmological community, trying to put the brakes on faddish trends.
He wonders whether the situation today can be compared to another historical era, around 1900, when many people thought that physics was essentially finished and when the English physicist Lord Kelvin said that just a couple of ''clouds'' remained to be dealt with.
''A few annoying tidbits, which turned out to be relativity and quantum theory,'' the twin revolutions of 20th-century science, Dr. Peebles said.
Likewise, there are a few clouds today like what he called ''the dark sector,'' which could have more complicated physics than cosmologists think.
''I'm not convinced these clouds herald revolutions as deep as relativity and quantum mechanics,'' Dr. Peebles said. ''I'm not arguing that they won't.''
As for the fate of the universe, we will never have a firm answer, said Dr. Sandage, who was Hubble's protégé and has seen it all.
''It's like asking, 'Does God exist?' '' he said.
Predicting the future, he pointed out, requires faith that simple mathematical models really work to describe the universe.
''I don't think we really know how things work,'' he said.
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We don't really know how things work. We are taking 'scientific' observations, theoretical calculations and 'scientific' models; making predictions; and sometimes presenting it as fact or "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional consent."