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This might get shut down, but I have never gotten an answer from the biologists I've discussed with that if random mutations introduce change in the genome, and
by aliswe 5y ago
This might get shut down, but I have never gotten an answer from the biologists I've discussed with that if random mutations introduce change in the genome, and natural selection prunes the non beneficient alterations, where does the complexity in the genome come from?
We must then confer that either the genome is not complex, or complexity can appear from randomness. Neither of which are good.
- _kulang 5y agoWhat is “complexity” to you? Why does it have to come from somewhere? I do a lot of statistics/sampling work. To me, randomness and complexity certainly are not mutually exclusive. In fact I would argue that randomness results in a lot of the complexity in our world, hell, quantum mechanics is entirely probabilistic, even for single particles
- aliswe 5y agofor me, using QM as as argument will require you to fully qualify what the reasoning is ... some reasoning would also be appreciated to the other points, in fact I am not sure you have presented an argument at all? not looking to debate of course - if you simply want to state your opinion without explaining then thats fine too
- _kulang 5y agoI’m just curious as to what you think, as you seem to indicate you don’t think complexity arising from randomness is good/something you don’t believe is true. I’m pretty comfortable with that as an idea, I’m genuinely wondering what your opinion is for opinion’s sake, hence why I haven’t presented an argument per se. I (apparently) used the word argue but it’s a figure of speech