Just a thought
Eduardo.
> Re: Design Flaw in the Brain
>
> Glenn Morton (grmorton@waymark.net)
> Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:37:15 -0600
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> At 05:47 PM 10/29/97 -0800, bwnbcg@sjm.infi.net wrote:
> >My son, Andy, at U of Montana sent this re: The Design Flaw in the Brain
> >
> >---
>
> >To have all the information to fully predict how all the dendrites will
> >form, we need to know every quantum mechanical detail of every molecule
> >involved and the other environmental details: light, gravity, ect.
> >Considering that we can't know the exact position, velocity, and spin of
> >the electrons around a single hydrogen atom, there is no way we can gain
> >all the information needed to predict exact biological growth. I
> >suppose that if we could find the mechanics of the most sub-atomic
> >particles, such that we could not break it down any further, and
> >included every detectable environmental variable (on this sub-atomic
> >level) we could build a computational model that would exactly predict
> >everything from electron spin to the exact formation of biological forms
> >in a closed system. Since the only truly closed system consists of
> >everything, we would have to keep track of ever sub-atomic particle. To
> >consider this even theorectically possible my a species that has trouble
> >keeping track if it socks is thinking way to highly of the human race.
>
> Since one cannot have all the quantum states and even if you did it would
> not yield a predictable design to the brain, I think your son is saying that
> the genome cannot have enough information to specify the brain's circuitry.
> This is precisely my point. It can't. Yet if you listen to the
> anti-evolutionists, you get the decided impression that they argue that the
> information MUST be provided by the Designer for the entire biological
> system. What this shows is that the biological system is too short of
> information. Thus the demand for specificity by the anti-evolutionists is an
> erroneous demand. If the information MUST be specified, then they need to
> specify exactly where this specified info is.
>
> The other implication of this is that every brain is wired differently, yet
> the overall effect is the production of a human.
>
> glenn