Evolution IS a Blind Watchmaker

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In this video I deconstruct the broken watch straw man argument used by creationist / ID supporters to attack evolution. I had to pack a ton of information into this video so you WILL need to pause it periodically.

The basic premise of the argument is that a bunch of parts will never randomly assemble into the correct arrangement to form a properly functioning complex. Once again, creationists / ID supporters miss the basic concept of evolution entirely. No biologists believes, nor is there any evidence that complex systems form spontaneously in one fell swoop. That would be creation. Systems evolve through many intermediates, one step at a time, slowly building up the complexity.

Here I deconstruct their straw man argument. Basically, I simulate clocks as living organisms. Selective pressure is focused on their ability to accurately tell time. NO goal is imposed on the design (you can tell this because every simulation ends with a differently constructed clock). And it works. Clocks evolve through a series of transitional forms: Pendulum, Proto-clock, 1-handed Clock, 2-handed Clock, 3-handed Clock, and 4-handed Clock. Gradually the complexity is built up.

These labels I have assigned to the transitional forms have nothing to do with the simulation itself. They are names I assigned so that we could analyze what the population was doing. The clocks are just clocks, living in their world, trying to tell time as accurately as possible.

One thing I wanted to address but didn't have time in the video is how rapid the transitional period can be. In some simulations the population goes from pendulums to 3-handed Clocks in a hundred or so generations. And the transitions between the transitional forms are even more rapid, happening in about ten generations. Chances are none or a very limited representation of that transition will be preserved in the fossil record.

One thing I should add. The program does not draw the clocks. It maintains, mates, and simulates them, but the drawing must be done manually from the genome matrix.

The program is written in MatLab.

The hand rotations that begin with 86 are 86,000 not 86.000. When YouTube compressed the video it becam hard to tell a comma from a period.

To download this video go to:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9e1zz000mq7

To download the program go to:
http://www.mediafire.com/?1umdtnwayyp
Alternate link to download Clock Evolution Program:
http://www.mediafire.com/?yygr5xhmzdm

If you wish to translate this video you can download the PowerPoint file from:
http://www.mediafire.com/?z33mymkjmzn

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[ExtantFrodo2]

DNA is not designed. It just happens to replicate. Evolution happens by default whenever you have a variant replicator that is non-randomly culled. DNA repair tools evolved as well. They certainly don't work perfectly or you would never get cancer. There would also be no evolution if they did. The fact is that there is no immutable source of information in any cell to tell it it is straying too far from some standard, so they stray and stray with only the limit of not dying before breeding.

[ExtantFrodo2]

"You have no scientific argument to deny creation"

Facepalm! You are evidently completely looney tunes. Your life in denial must suffer severe cognitive dissonance. I do not envy you.

[ExtantFrodo2]

Show me one dinosaur bone above the K-T boundary.

[ExtantFrodo2]

Clay is mostly aluminum silicates. People (at least most people I know) are definitely not mostly aluminum silicates.

Yeah, we are not more than just the material we are made of. The pattern of matter that is us being unique in all the universe is just a pattern. Who cares if it is one of a kind or very fragile or extremely difficult to repair or that it houses the saved memories of many years of experience? It's just atoms, right? (end of sarcastic routine)

[ExtantFrodo2]

they were not each independently created by evolution you nitwit. All birds (whether they are flightless or not) have a common ancestor.

"ALL just happened to hit that formula dead on every single time ... by random chance!"

Thanks, I'll be laughing about that idiotic notion for a long time.

[IslandBard]

I left it there because I could see the discussion was going nowhere..... It appears to have arrived so I'll let it rest in peace.

[IslandBard]

DNA is designed to replicate and duplicate itself EXACTLY. ANY time it does not do that is a malfunction. It has an inbuilt mechanism to prevent mutation. Any time that fails to prevent a mutation is a malfunction.

ANY mutation is a malfunction of a system that is designed to replicate itself exactly. DNA is designed to replicate, not mutate. You cannot just pretend that some mutations are not malfunctions because it hurts your argument to admit it. I'll leave it there.

[IslandBard]

Yes, the Lord created a self-sustaining, self-replicating, finely tuned and balanced worldwide ecosystem with the sun above and the heat of the Earth below as constant energy sources.

It is what you see today so the word of the Lord is in accordance with and predicts the evidence we see about us and so cannot be dismissed as untrue just because you personally do not want it to be true.

You have no scientific argument to deny creation so what is the point of your comment?

[IslandBard]

As to dinosaurs, the world is full of ANCIENT artefacts and writings accurately depicting the very same dinosaurs science has only recently discovered and (according to evolutionists) supposedly became extinct over 60 million years before mankind existed.

REAL, existent, observable, physical, ABUNDANT, archaeological EVIDENCE versus unevidenced theoretical claims and interpretations of evolutionists.

I follow the EVIDENCE, what do you do?

I'll leave it there.

[ExtantFrodo2]

Having a function does not mean it is not vestigial. Vestigial means it isn't used for the function that it is mainly employed for. As you say, wings have more uses than just flying. Just like a hammer can be used to put in a screw, but regard the eye sockets of eyeless cave fish and tell me those have some use that makes them "the best possible design".