"We can build up immense amounts of complexity from nothing but noise, so just babbling about how complicated something is says nothing about the impossibility of its origin from chance events. Order, functionality, and, as Joe Felsenstein defined it, adaptedness are more relevant properties, and we have a natural mechanism for generating those, too. It's called selection."
PZ Meyers
[Hypothetical biology can take utter randomness (noise) and turn it into, say, sentience? Just by selecting noise spikes, I suppose. Then let's see them do it. "We must have evidence if we are to believe a thing." (Bertrand Russell) So far from these folks, nothing in the area of firm, experimental, replicable scientific evidence.]
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