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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Greg or e who wrote (19194)	1/29/2005 10:08:45 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

irreducibly complex systems could just happen The steps in evolving life are not irreducibly complex. Yes they are complex but like the journey of a thousand miles, they are just one step after another. One reason that the complexity seems abrupt is that the past steps are discarded from the DNA history. Imagine a human design, the automobile. If you were presented with a new one and had no idea of previous carriages or electronics or plastic and metal working then it would seem to be so complex that no mere human could possibly think it up and make it work. Well, no human can. It took generations of humans to invent the wheel and the chair and the engine and other parts. The only reason that a car doesn't stun us with its complexity is that we know types of vehicles from which it evolved. The evidence for the evolutionary steps in DNA is lost in the decayed and eaten bodies of billions of generations of previous organisms. Life does not carry around much of a museum of obsolete DNA. Some small fragments of past evidence is preserved in the fossil bones and teeth but those are manefestations of only a fraction of the past DNA sequences. TP