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This is another problem. That to me is a huge cop out on evolutions part.
Are statements about, say, the first-century Roman Empire "cop-outs" because we've never directly observed them?(Alpha and Omega)
How many thousands of animals have short life spans and should not be evolving ever couple million years but maybe ever couple decades or so. Take for example the fruit fly from egg to maturity it takes 9 days something should have evolved from the last 100 years at least or so. How many generations of fruit fly is that? To say it takes millions of years I would agree with say animals that have large life spans but not animals that have short ones.
Aha, but that's exactly the case. We have witnessed speciation within the fruit fly - in fact, there's ample literature concerning the speciation of the Drosophila melanogaster (which I mentioned in my last post!)(Alpha and Omega)
The cause of evolution is adaption to the environment by a species. That statement is incorrect. Somethings must cause somethings to happen. If the paperweight fell on your foot the cause (gravity) produces the effect (pain) they are not interchangeable.
I have no idea what you are trying to communicate to me.I just gave you an example in which a cause was also an effect. Clearly, some effects must also be causes. Otherwise, how would more than one cause-effect sequence have ever occurred? I'll try phrasing an example in some more familiar terminology.Cause: GodEffect: Creation of Adam and Eve ->Cause: Adam and EveEffect: Fall of Man ->Cause: Fall of ManEffect: Worldwide suffering ->Cause: Worldwide sufferingEffect: Skepticism of God's existence and discussion of such on message boardsAnd so on.(Alpha and Omega)
Natural selection implies that it is an effect (not cause) of a changing environment. That is why certain characteristics are chosen because they are better (for lack of a better word) to suit the current environment. The environment changes = causenatural selection = effect
What would be more accurate is this:Cause: Variation + heredity + limited resourcesEffect: Natural selectionCause: Natural selectionEffect: Evolution(Alpha and Omega)
We are not isolated systems. We are open systems.
This is correct. That is why the criticism does not apply.(Alpha and Omega)
But we still die. Therefore, entropy is applied to an open system (us).
Our inability to achieve immortality is a problem of limited technology (or theology, depending on who you ask). It has nothing to do with whether we have sufficient energy to reverse entropy in that particular case.What the second law is saying is that things will tend towards disorder in the absence of an input of energy. The earth receives energy from the sun, therefore it will not necessarily tend towards disorder.
This is another problem. That to me is a huge cop out on evolutions part.
Are statements about, say, the first-century Roman Empire "cop-outs" because we've never directly observed them?(Alpha and Omega)
How many thousands of animals have short life spans and should not be evolving ever couple million years but maybe ever couple decades or so. Take for example the fruit fly from egg to maturity it takes 9 days something should have evolved from the last 100 years at least or so. How many generations of fruit fly is that? To say it takes millions of years I would agree with say animals that have large life spans but not animals that have short ones.
Aha, but that's exactly the case. We have witnessed speciation within the fruit fly - in fact, there's ample literature concerning the speciation of the Drosophila melanogaster (which I mentioned in my last post!)(Alpha and Omega)
The cause of evolution is adaption to the environment by a species. That statement is incorrect. Somethings must cause somethings to happen. If the paperweight fell on your foot the cause (gravity) produces the effect (pain) they are not interchangeable.
I have no idea what you are trying to communicate to me.I just gave you an example in which a cause was also an effect. Clearly, some effects must also be causes. Otherwise, how would more than one cause-effect sequence have ever occurred? I'll try phrasing an example in some more familiar terminology.Cause: GodEffect: Creation of Adam and Eve ->Cause: Adam and EveEffect: Fall of Man ->Cause: Fall of ManEffect: Worldwide suffering ->Cause: Worldwide sufferingEffect: Skepticism of God's existence and discussion of such on message boardsAnd so on.(Alpha and Omega)
Natural selection implies that it is an effect (not cause) of a changing environment. That is why certain characteristics are chosen because they are better (for lack of a better word) to suit the current environment. The environment changes = causenatural selection = effect
What would be more accurate is this:Cause: Variation + heredity + limited resourcesEffect: Natural selectionCause: Natural selectionEffect: Evolution(Alpha and Omega)
We are not isolated systems. We are open systems.
This is correct. That is why the criticism does not apply.(Alpha and Omega)
But we still die. Therefore, entropy is applied to an open system (us).
Our inability to achieve immortality is a problem of limited technology (or theology, depending on who you ask). It has nothing to do with whether we have sufficient energy to reverse entropy in that particular case.What the second law is saying is that things will tend towards disorder in the absence of an input of energy. The earth receives energy from the sun, therefore it will not necessarily tend towards disorder.