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Evidence for the Evolution of Complexity

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Here’s a revealing quote from Neil Greenspan about the evolution of complexity:

In fact, there is no evidence of any kind to indicate that the magnitude of a system’s complexity poses any sort of barrier to an origin through evolution, as opposed to an origin through design by an intelligent agent. (source)

Let me suggest that the reason Greenspan can find no evidence for the magnitude of complexity posing a barrier to its evolution is that evolutionists have never provided actual evidence for evolution producing biological complexity. Instead, they’ve only provided handwaving imaginative fairytales — what Franklin Harold and James Shapiro call “wishful speculations.” Since these are enough to settle evolution, how could there be evidence against?

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Well, a set of an original plus a copy is more complex than just an original (albeit not by much). But anyway, this isn't quite the same thing. This is an example of how inverted duplications can be subsequently refined to regulate genes. In your analogy, this would be equivalent to running something through a xerox machine, then mutating the two copies.Poisson
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Inverted duplication... So like if I turn a piece of paper upside down and run it through a Xerox machine the copy is more complex than the original? Ooooooooooooooooooooooookay... Is that your final answer?DaveScot
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There WAS no evolution of complexity. Evolution WAS the expression of a predetermined complexity present from very early on and progressively derepressed in an ordered, purposeful and directed manner, a process no longer occurring. It terminated with the production of Homo sapiens, the last documented mammalian species to arrive on the scene. If I am wrong please correct me.John Davison
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All students of Kipling. Dawkins certainly seems to imply that the only limit to evolution is one's imagination.jacktone
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Evidence for a stepwise process underlying the evolution of a new regulatory circuit: http://jcclab.science.oregonstate.edu/node/view/15808Poisson
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