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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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But if you want to know one jt. The one example I gave off the bat recently was a mother always telling their kids what to do vs an uncle always telling the kids to figure it out on their own.
So maybe we should look at both sides of the story. The old greek belief that objects fall to earth because they long to be reunited with it. Or is just because of an inherent property of objects with mass?
uh actually I have been and am perfectly capable of walking in another persons shoes and seeing things from their perspective. Increased knowledge doesn't remove this talent. Just as knowing what genes you were born with doesn't mean you have to think there is nothing you can do to alter the effect of those genes on your life. If you HAD read my comments on those videos you would know this already. The sensors cells have are limited by what the genes have produced. No sense means no control.
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Homework assignment: Try combining those 2.
lol jt, I love that you wrote that comment.
Finding a mistake does not mean that it's not real, just like how finding a compromise does not mean it's unreal to.
The old greek belief that objects fall to earth because they long to be reunited with it.
Or is just because of an inherent property of objects with mass?
Perhaps we should combine the two?
If your out to find compromises then what do you think you will find?
Does not mean they created the truth. It only means they discovered it in some manner.
You see jt, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
If you're out to see mistakes, then what in the world do you think you're going to see?