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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 ne...
READ THIS 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.
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So negative music, video games, (Darwin + evolution + Hitler = over 8 million murders from his millions of loyalist) movies etc are also amoral do not incite violence behavior, drug use, immorality etcYes you are right they are mentally disturbed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!
"So how does your intelligently designed program illustrate anything in the real world?"
Well, for one thing it illustrates beautifully how ubiquitous the evolutionary algorithm really is in that it continues to operate regardless of the substrate in which it functions.
"Even if there were an occasional rare beneficial mutation, it would be swamped out by the ubiquitous bad ones." You haven't thought this through have you? Even if bad ones were ubiquitous(which they aren't, most are neutral), the fact they are bad removes them from the population AND the species! The simple math is BAD GENES CAN'T ACCUMULATE!
"There has never been a mutation that was generally beneficial. (Name one)." One could name thousands, but you'd dispute most of them by claiming that because we hadn't gene sequenced the parents we have no proof that it was a mutation. And in the cases where we have sequence information under laboratory condition you'd claim there'd been hankipanky. In fact I'm certain you would even dispute the most well documented of them all, Nylonase.
"Natural selection only occurs in fully functional, incredibly complex living things that are able to reproduce." Actually it occurs in anything that copies with variation in a situation of finite necessary resources. It not not only DOES occur, but it actualy MUST occur. It is impossible for it NOT to occur. It would be like standing on a planet and dropping a ball and having it not fall. It occurs if they are not fully functional, incredibly complex, or even living things!
"Clocks are not living things" That's exactly right, sir. Natural selection only occurs in fully functional, incredibly complex living things that are able to reproduce. There has never been a mutation that was generally beneficial. (Name one). Even if there were an occasional rare beneficial mutation, it would be swamped out by the ubiquitous bad ones. And only a living thing could mutate anyway. So how does your intelligently designed program illustrate anything in the real world?
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define 'living"
"So how does your intelligently designed program illustrate anything in the real world?"
Well, for one thing it illustrates beautifully how ubiquitous the evolutionary algorithm really is in that it continues to operate regardless of the substrate in which it functions.
You haven't thought this through have you? Even if bad ones were ubiquitous(which they aren't, most are neutral), the fact they are bad removes them from the population AND the species! The simple math is BAD GENES CAN'T ACCUMULATE!
One could name thousands, but you'd dispute most of them by claiming that because we hadn't gene sequenced the parents we have no proof that it was a mutation. And in the cases where we have sequence information under laboratory condition you'd claim there'd been hankipanky. In fact I'm certain you would even dispute the most well documented of them all, Nylonase.
Actually it occurs in anything that copies with variation in a situation of finite necessary resources. It not not only DOES occur, but it actualy MUST occur. It is impossible for it NOT to occur. It would be like standing on a planet and dropping a ball and having it not fall. It occurs if they are not fully functional, incredibly complex, or even living things!
That's exactly right, sir. Natural selection only occurs in fully functional, incredibly complex living things that are able to reproduce. There has never been a mutation that was generally beneficial. (Name one). Even if there were an occasional rare beneficial mutation, it would be swamped out by the ubiquitous bad ones. And only a living thing could mutate anyway. So how does your intelligently designed program illustrate anything in the real world?
I think I'd go with the EM band.