Tuesday, November 7
I'll grant creationists one thing. The arising of today's complex life by natural selection in the time given seems highly improbable. This is is just my own gut feeling. I'm not saying it didn't happen, I just think that our current understanding of how DNA first evolved, and the pacing of adaptive radiation, is somehow off the mark. It doesn't "feel" like it could happen that way even in a period as long as 4 billion years. We don't even know how life bucks the trend of entropy. It DOES seem somehow designed. This is why I have more respect for someone who understands all the complex orthodox darwinian explanations and yet adopts an Intelligent Design scenario of some sort, then I do for ignorant idiots who don't know a thing except "Darwin's wrong". Still, it doesn't do to pawn the problem off on an Intelligent Designer, or God. That very concept still breaks the second law of thermodynamics and leaves our current understanding of physics either local or wrong. And it still implies a supernatural realm outside our natural universe. This in turn just moves the question of existence arising from either chaos or nothingness to another shell one step out, and doesn't really explain anything. If WE could create life inside a laboratory, that wouldn't solve the problem of how WE got here, after all. Unless it's turtles (Gods) all the way UP as well as down.
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Dinosaurs go "RAAARRRR"
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