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To: Virginia-American
"Are you under the impression that every nerve cell has its own special genes?"

To answer your question, no I'm not under that impression. However, the design of the human brain is extremely complex and a huge amount of data would be required to actually store all of that design information. Remember, in the Theory of Evolution, all design data has to be physically stored inside the organism. You can't assume anything away; you can't wave your hands and say well this happens and then somehow this happens. It's a completely physical, biochemical theory and you have to store all information biochemically.

186 posted on 01/14/2006 1:56:45 AM PST by carl in alaska (Professional driver. Closed course. Do not attempt this maneuver.)
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To: carl in alaska; Virginia-American
However, the design of the human brain is extremely complex and a huge amount of data would be required to actually store all of that design information.

And you think twelve gigabytes of information isn't "huge" enough? Why not? Show your math. This should be amusing.

Remember, in the Theory of Evolution, all design data has to be physically stored inside the organism.

I've got news for you, fella, that's the case in "intelligent design" scenarios as well.

Not even the IDers are stupid enough to try to claim that somehow blueprints are "beamed in" during embryological development from some extraterrestrial source...

Whenever biologists have gone looking for the gene(s) influencing the development of a particular structure or biochemical system in animals, they've found it.

You can't assume anything away; you can't wave your hands and say well this happens and then somehow this happens.

Wouldn't dream of it.

It's a completely physical, biochemical theory and you have to store all information biochemically.

Again, even the "intelligent design" folks concede this point. Although they'll argue about the original *source* of the information contained in the DNA, not even the IDers deny that there's enough information in the genome to produce the next generation of babies. New puppies are not individually constructed by God's hand, they're made by the mother dog's womb and the DNA inherited from the daddy dog and the mommy dog.

188 posted on 01/14/2006 2:13:37 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: carl in alaska
Remember, in the Theory of Evolution, all design data has to be physically stored inside the organism

This has nothing to do with evolution. You're challenging embryology, and probably a few other parts of biology.

Is this supposed to be the case for anything other than people?

190 posted on 01/14/2006 2:22:29 AM PST by Virginia-American
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