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To: Greg or e who wrote (50785)	3/25/2014 10:56:24 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

That combined with the fact that you have no idea how extremely complex and specific information can arise from nothing leaves the unbiased observer completely unimpressed. So how impressed is the unbiased observer supposed to feel about your Moses? We have a continuous chain of evidence that convicts him of being psychopathic killer. “…they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day…Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘The man must surely be put to death”…So as the Lord commanded Moses, all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him with stones, and he died.” "And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."

To: Greg or e who wrote (50785)	3/25/2014 10:58:37 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

no idea how extremely complex and specific information can arise from nothing I think you are hung up on the "specific" nature of the information. You are implying a goal in that information and therefore it is necessary that the process of living was intended to arrive at the specific information that we experience as the present. The process of evolution is one of change. The change is not random though, because it is the survivors that produce the next generation. The survivors tend to be "the more fit" and so there is a trend for generations to become more complex over time. More and more information is retained, but there is no particular map as to what information is going to be retained, just whatever information helped some organism to survive and spawn the next generation. Uncountable variations in the population of Earth could have happened, but only one set of events actually happened and that is the one that led to our present.