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A galloping horse is pretty complex.
That house of cards is still being built. It will fall in time.
If you can't look around and see evolution clashing with creationism and causing consternation, it's definitely myopia.
It's one thing for a critter to grow bigger, smaller, or more hairy. It's quite another for it to change into something entirely different.
The premise of my question was that you divided evolutionary change into "structural" and "cosmetic." I was only inquiring as to where you drew the line between them, and offered an example. Is that example of evolutionary change "structural" or "cosmetic?"I don't accept the premise of your question.
How? Explain complexity. A gun is a series of complex mechanisms, but can built in the backyard with a shovel as a receiver (I've seen this done).
The premise of my question was that you divided evolutionary change into "structural" and "cosmetic." I was only inquiring as to where you drew the line between them, and offered an example. Is that example of evolutionary change "structural" or "cosmetic?"
There is no life on Earth that is "something entirely different".
Now had there been, this would be evidence in the favor of creationism (or at the very least multiple origins of life). Yet all life on Earth shares varying degrees of similarity.
That is evidence of a common creator as well.
You're making my point about 'redefining complexity down', or hand waving it away altogether.
Like 9/11?If you get anxiety and dismay from anything you see that you don't like, it's definitely a you problem.
Like 9/11?
Fair enough. But keep in mind that from the evolutionist point of view biological complexity is a side-effect, not a goal of evolution, so for some of us your questions are perplexing and don't seem to have much to do with the subject at hand. And in the case of the bat's wing there is no increase in complexity anyway.I said that I don't accept the premise that such a change ever happened.
Not unless you can demonstrate the constraints under which said creator would be limited by. The only way to do so would involving deducing how the creator created living things.
Last time I checked creationists don't bother with that.
There is no life on Earth that is "something entirely different".
Now had there been, this would be evidence in the favor of creationism (or at the very least multiple origins of life). Yet all life on Earth shares varying degrees of similarity.
David pretty much summed it up.
Psalm 139:14
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
No, complexity is a very subjective term. How do you define 'complex'?
I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean.
Fair enough. But keep in mind that from the evolutionist point of view biological complexity is a side-effect, not a goal of evolution, so for some of us your questions are perplexing and don't seem to have much to do with the subject at hand. And in the case of the bat's wing there is no increase in complexity anyway.
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