What is the basic premise of evolution? Basically, evolution states that life on earth has evolved over billions of years from simple single celled organisms to our complex environmental, social, religious, etc. systems, and that these systems are continuing to develop. It is survival of the fittest. As time goes by in order for life to survive it has had to continually adjust to a changing environment and a changing world. Those who don't adjust (evolve) die away and are replaced by others who do.
According to the evolutionary process we were once primates (having evolved along some line from a single celled organism) and over time we adjusted, evolved, and became man.
So what's the problem with that? In one word it's "decay". The idea that life has become more complex over time goes entirely against the nature of the universe. The term "Half-life" is used to describe the decay of radioactive material. Stars gradually burn out over time or are sucked into black holes. People and animals grow old and die of old age if they are not killed. The planets' compas/orbit gradually decays. Everything in both life and nature breaks down into simpler elements. Metal rusts, meat rots, trees decay, etc., etc., etc.
In order for evolution to work the opposite must be true. Evolution of life requires that things become more complex over time. After all, humans are more complex than apes. Apes are more complex than single celled organisms. There's no doubt that animals and people can adust to changing environments, but for them to become more complex requires something more than is possible simply by "chance" At it's very simplist it requires intervention by an outside force. Just look at the world around you. Do buildings build themselves or are they built and maintained by people. What happens if they're not maintained? They end up falling apart and then down. Our universe is like an unimmaginally complex mechanical clock. It is gradually unwinding and will eventually stop running.
This is a difficult thing for many people to accept because in order to accept this reality one must accept that something first created and then wound the clock. Some more powerful being put the universe into motion which in turn has many implications that many people don't want to have to recognize and accept. Thus it is easier to believe the lie that "there is no creator" than to live with the implications that there is.
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hey cool entry.
I am glad that I can read what you are thinking and stuff . Cool.
Tell me what you think of mine sometime.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the law of entropy, which states that on average complexity decreases. Locally, it's obvious that complexity can increase. Anytime a plant combines CO2, water, and sunlight to make sugar, complexity increases within that plant. Anytime you form a stack of dishes, you decrease entropy.
It's a common mistake -- in fact www.talkorigins.org has an entire page devoted to the misconception: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/thermo.html
Except that your plant is doing the increase of complexity. The plant draws in the simpler elements and combines them to make food. The elements don't do it in and of themselves. The plants are designed to do this.
I read the information on the talkorigins sites. I don't know much about the law of thermodynamics, but i do know that whether it's an issue of entropy or not, life gets more complex when there is a design and plan, such as from an egg and sperm uniting eventually creating a living adult, however when that plan completes, reaches adulthood, the system slowly breaks down over time, the adult ages and dies.
When the talkorigins website talks about things becoming more complex it refers to simple systems such as CO2 + water + sunlight = sugar which is used by the plant for growth. Simple systems such as the production of sugar are negligible compared to the complex systems of livign human beings. It is like comparing a grain of sand to the entire universe. I would discuss this more, but then it would be an entire post... hmmm maybe i will later.
But the whole point is that THERE IS NO LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS which says that complexity can't increase, even extraordinary, in a localized sense. Your objection simply makes no sense.
It's like arguing that airplanes can't exist because of the law of gravity.
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