Wednesday, August 05, 2020

Debunking oppostion to theory of evolution



* Entropy is a property of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which Evolution doesn't violate because while order rises in genetics (a local decrease of entropy) while the Sun slowly marches toward eventual heat death (a massive increase of entropy). This argument is tiresome. * Evolution has nothing to do with biogenesis directly, and there is no "law of biogenesis" for it to violate. The processes of the first biological life are irrelevant to changes in genetics. * Mendel's studies of genetics now have a hundred and fifty years of further science for us to enjoy! What a world. They're now part of a larger set of biological rules that are firmly and happily a part of Evolutionary Theory. * Spontaneous Generation died thanks to Pasteur and this is a rehash of the biogenesis one. * The "Law of information systems" is something creationists made up using and DNA is not an information system. * Specified complexity / irreducible complexity are *creationist* laws with no relevance in biology. There are no "irreducible" systems in nature, we can see clear paths of evolution for the eye, wing, and other complex biological elements. So yes, this one is true, Biology directly violates these "laws". * Statistical Mathematics: no idea how evolution is supposed to violate this, unless you just think evolution is so incredibly unlikely as to be impossible. * What's Natural Law? * There are clearly beneficial mutations. * Everything I can find on "generic complexity" says it may change ideas in Evolution, expanding the theory and filling in areas we still don't understand. Which is how science works. * Information theory is a repeat of the Information Systems / Beneficial Mutations items, saying that new information can't arise in evolution, which it obviously can. These are just a rehash of old creationist claims based on old ideas of classical biology and misrepresentations.

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