red algae – Uncommon Descent

Red algae thrives despite losing 1/4 of genes, a billion years ago

This is a classic story of devolution, where an organism thrives by losing information, as Michael Behe explains in Darwin Devolves. Devolution is a form of evolution; it just isn’t glitzy.

PyrrhoManiac1 It's weird to see a criticism of reductionism in a post defending intelligent design. Intelligent design requires the idea that... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
PyrrhoManiac1 @241 My guess is that your idea of Nature just happens to make your beliefs about Evolution possible. Right? I... – Man-ape chasm of differences
relatd SG at 238, Cut the crap, OK? I'm a working book editor. Out of 100 manuscripts, I might - might... – Man-ape chasm of differences
asauber PM1, My guess is that your idea of Nature just happens to make your beliefs about Evolution possible. Right? Andrew – Man-ape chasm of differences
asauber "to posit a designer to do what nature itself cannot" PM1, And you know what nature can and can't do?... – Man-ape chasm of differences
PyrrhoManiac1 @238 And no evolutionary biologist would disagree with you. Sing evolutionary theory does not propose that blind, unguided chance is... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Sir Giles Relatd: Blind, unguided chance had no ability to create such things. That is the ID position. And no evolutionary biologist... – Man-ape chasm of differences
relatd SG at 236, Your only apparent mission here is to trash ID and to use useless arguments for that position.... – Man-ape chasm of differences
PyrrhoManiac1 Others, such as complex-systems researcher Stuart Kauffman, have attempted to generate complex patterns out of self-organizing or autocatalytic systems and... – From Evolution News: Prigogine's Self-Organization vs....
Sir Giles KF: Any hypothesised different architecture needs to be warranted on actual observation of same in action, and that is simply... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Sir Giles KF: More can be said, And just as night follows day, much, much more will be said. And, equally predictable,... – Man-ape chasm of differences
Origenes S.C. Meyer: "To see the difference between order and complexity consider the difference between the following sequences: Na-Cl-Na-Cl-Na-Cl-Na-Cl AZFRT<MPGRTSHKLKYR The... – From Evolution News: Prigogine's Self-Organization vs....
doubter Bornagain77@27 It takes an immaterial mind to do, and/or provide, an overarching context. But my point was that the illogical... – At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and...
bornagain77 Supplemental notes, quotes, and verses: Hey, Paul Davies — Your ID Is Showing – Robert F. Shedinger – March 6,... – From Evolution News: Prigogine's Self-Organization vs....
bornagain77 What is so devastating to Darwinian presuppositions with the (empirical) finding of pervasive quantum coherence and/or quantum entanglement within molecular... – From Evolution News: Prigogine's Self-Organization vs....
bornagain77 And in the following 2011 paper, researchers ,,, show that when the bits (in a computer) to be deleted are... – From Evolution News: Prigogine's Self-Organization vs....
bornagain77 To elaborate on Dr. Miller's observation, "Nothing in nature will ever simultaneously go to both low entropy and high energy... – From Evolution News: Prigogine's Self-Organization vs....
kairosfocus AF, 1: as you full well know, function including reproductive function [implying a highly complex von Neumann kinematic self replicator]... – Man-ape chasm of differences
martin_r a bit off topic, and 2 years old, but i noticed it just today ... 2020: Tour scores prestigious Centenary... – From Evolution News: Prigogine's Self-Organization vs....
bornagain77 26,,, As to: "It seems to me that here the utmost simplicity of one world concept trumps the profundity of... – At Evolution News: Intelligent Design and...
Querius Asauber @226 Says the guy who spends all his active hours at UD spamming Evolution. Indeed! Pumping out comment after... – Man-ape chasm of differences