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To: woodb01
"how does an "accident" suddenly develop a detailed system for a very SPECIFIC purpose"

That's not what evolution requires. Things like eyes evolved over hundreds of millions of generations. Under evolutions you get small changes over many generations that gradually add up to very complex systems. It's easy to see this by looking at DNA itself, which is just a long string of 4 different kinds of amino acids called peptides.

Specifically in the case of eyes we can see simpler versions that require no central nervous system to function. For instance we have starfish that have simple light sensing cells. Same goes for jellyfish which adjust their depth based upon the quantity of light.

Just think about how it would develop. Consider a simple plant eating organism. It moves around at random without sensing it's environment and eats any plant matter it runs into. Well, plants tend to be on the surface of the ocean, because that's where the light is. So, now imagine a random mutation that causes the organism to move in the direction of heat. That would tend to make it go to the source of it's food. That organism would have a natural advantage.

Build on that for millions of generations and you get greater fidelity until you get the ability to observe a greater range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The organism develops an improved ability to see and an improved ability to react to what it sees. As sensing light in multiple directions is more useful than in one, when an organism develops this ability, it is selected again.

Gradually the ability to detect light in many directions is developed, as is the ability to process that information. The ability to reconcile overlapping images to gain more information (depth perception) is eventually formed, as is the ability to detect movement and see in greater fidelity. Eventually you get something like a modern eye.

Sure the eye is complicated, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be created through an evolutionary process.
232 posted on 08/16/2005 2:35:21 PM PDT by Moral Hazard ("Now therefore kill every male among the little ones" - Numbers 31:17)
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To: Moral Hazard

"how does an "accident" suddenly develop a detailed system for a very SPECIFIC purpose"

That's not what evolution requires. Things like eyes evolved over hundreds of millions of generations. Under evolutions you get small changes over many generations that gradually add up to very complex systems.




So then, using the analogy or allegory of the deck of cards, by the time that the first card even got NEAR the second card, they'd all be a pile of dust...

Did time and aging stop for evolution to have its next "small step" to the next form of one-celled life? Some of this stuff is just so silly and absurd it's ridiculous. Do you really "hear" what you're saying? That nothing eventually moved to greater and greater levels of something. That it forced itself to become more and more complex over gozillions a' yers! (in my best Forrest Gump imitation)...

You can't possibly be serious here. Take the Time man and THINK about the silly presumptions that you have to accept on totally BLIND FAITH for evolution to even SOUND reasonable.

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293 posted on 08/16/2005 4:53:05 PM PDT by woodb01 (ANTI-DNC Web Portal at ---> http://www.noDNC.com)
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