Twiddling the knobs (evolution wrong: biological change more like turning knobs on complex machine)

Creation Magazine ^ | Don Batten, Ph.D.

[GodGunsGuts]

Complex machines often have lots of knobs provided for adjustment: think of a jumbo jet, a television set or a DVD player. With a radio set you can twiddle the knobs to tune a different station or increase the volume or adjust the tone. But you can twiddle the controls on your radio as much as you like, it won’t change into a TV set.

The natural changes we see in living things are like twiddling the knobs on a complex machine: they can fine-tune the settings, but cannot create something completely new. For example, an enzyme in a bacterium might be optimized to work at a given temperature. If the bacterium finds itself in a slightly hotter environment, mutations can optimize the enzyme to work at the different temperature and natural selection would favour the new version. This is mere fine-tuning of existing abilities; twiddling the knobs.

With antibiotic resistance, a mutation can result in...

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[xcamel]

Another installment from Constipation Magazine...

[Izzy Dunne]

But you can twiddle the controls on your radio as much as you like, it won’t change into a TV set.

It won't produce another radio, either.

[Natural Law]

Had a grad student submitted that to me I would have graded it an “F”. Not based upon the positions taken, but upon the complete lack of substantiation for the positions taken.

[xcamel]

Like just about everything GGG posts.

[Dutchboy88]

Now that you have submitted your comments to us, we grade your comments “F” for lack of substantiation on your position taken.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[OldGuard1]

And? No analogy is perfect, but the point is very apt.

[tumblindice]

Q: How is a raven like a writing desk?
A: Poe wrote on both.

[tacticalogic]

It won't produce another radio, either.

A Bridgeport milling machine, OTOH, has been oft described as "The machine that can make itself."

[xcamel]

And the old joke about a Woman, a Radio, and finely adjusted knobs.

[Izzy Dunne]

A Bridgeport milling machine, OTOH, has been oft described as "The machine that can make itself."

At least that has some (ahem) bearing (ahem) on this situation. It won't produce another radio, either, I bet.

[xcamel]

...hurl.

[xcamel]

At least you collet (ahem) as you see ‘um.

[humblegunner]

Twiddling the knobs

Twaddle for boobs would have been a better title.

[GodGunsGuts]

==Twaddle for boobs would have been a better title.

I can see how you would be attracted to such a title d:op

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

It takes an engineer to realize the truth of intelligent design.

Biologists are typically too heavily invested in the Darwinian paradigm to comprehend the truth about the cell and it's origins.

click on image.

[metmom]

It takes an engineer to realize the truth of intelligent design. Biologists are typically too heavily invested in the Darwinian paradigm to comprehend the truth about the cell and it's origins.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.