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Old 01-12-2007, 04:52 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian View Post
"if you want to get to 10 and you have 6, no amount of subtraction or re-arranging numbers will take you there, you must add to what you have."

Thats amazing. Pure rational thought, the basis of evolution is almost disproved in that very sentence. Bravo!
You know there's only a 2-bit difference between 6 and 10 in binary? Rearranging bits will definitely get you from 6 to 10 .

Just to add to takaria's last post, that it is a distortion of science to claim that via the mechanisms of evolution no new information can be produced:

New information being gained via evolutionary mechanisms has been observed in many different areas. In populations of organisms we're constantly observing increases in genetic variety. On the organism level we have examples like the bacteria that evolved a mechanism for digesting nylon (which didn't exist until the 30's), or an antarctic fish which survives through 'antifreeze' proteins in the blood. On the genetic level we have observed many mechanisms by which information can be increased; a great example would be gene duplication.

*Shrug* Creationists won't hear a word of it though.

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