Re: A Few Simple Questions for a Simple Mind



On 30 Oct 2005 17:03:15 -0800, "Seanpit"
<seanpitnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>My questions aren't that difficult and don't take much biological
>knowledge to understand. They're actually quite simple and
>straightforward - even elementary. I've simply suggested that lower
>levels of functional complexity in any language system, to include
>genetic codes, can be evolved using mindless Darwinian-style mechanisms. . .

The genetic codes are very simple lookup tables. They are nothing
remotely close to a language system.

>while higher levels are exponentially harder and harder to evolve.

So what if they are exponentially harder to evolve? There is nothing
hard about evolution. Raise zero to as high a power as you want, and
it is still zero.

Can you show what prevents evolution from being inevitable?

--
Mark Isaak eciton (at) earthlink (dot) net
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger." -- Hermann Goering

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