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To: PatrickHenry; Tamar1973
Shall I ping the list, or have we had enough of this subject for a while?

If it picks up steam, ping it -- if it fades, let it die a deserved death, it's the same old whines.

But I have to comment on this creationist howler: " In fact, the retina is an immensely complex organ, comparable (if not exceeding) in complexity to the most sophisticated super-computer man has ever built".

Horse manure! The retina is a simple structure of stacked neurons, just repeated a bajillion times. The creationist canard above was probably one of those "read a science article but didn't understand it" moments that are so common for creationists -- in this case, reading that the data processing VOLUME of the retina is freaking huge, and cranks through as many bits of information as a supercomputer, but that's *NOT* the same as it being as *complex* as a supercomputer. A fiber-optic data cable transmits even more data faster than the retina, but it's still just a long strand of glass and isn't "complex". And biological systems are *great* at taking simple structures and replicating them literally millions or billions of times over. That's not "complexity" or "design", that's mindless repetition.

I really wish creationists would try to *learn* something about science, biology, and living things before they attempted to babble about them or "instruct" biologists on what they're allegedly "overlooking"...

9 posted on 02/01/2005 6:14:19 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
The retina is a simple structure of stacked neurons, just repeated a bajillion times.

If it's so "simple" why can't you make one?! What arrogance.

14 posted on 02/02/2005 11:23:59 AM PST by Tamar1973 (“Someone who doesn't know the difference between good & evil is worth nothing.”)
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