Complexity

See also

Design, argument from

Information, genetic, new

Irreducible complexity

Probability of specific proteins arising

Specified complexity

Resources

'Complexity = design'

Claim CI101: Complexity indicates design

Claim CI113: Genetic algorithms require a designer to specify desired outcome

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

‘Design vs. Chance’ by PZ Myers, AAI 2009

Biologist P. Z. Myers' lecture at the Atheist Alliance International 2009 conference in Burbank, CA. This link goes straight to 10:15 in this video, where Myers talks about this topic.

Complexity from simplicity

Claim CF002: Complexity does not come from simplicity

Claim CF002.1: Tornadoes in junkyards do not build things

Brief responses in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

See also Thermodynamics

Irreducible complexity / ‘Complex structures could not have arisen by chance’

See Irreducible complexity

Specified complexity / complex specified information

See Specified complexity

‘Darwin thought that cells just contained homogenous blobs of protoplasm’

Antievolutionists Wrong About Darwin Yet Again

Post on The Austringer, blog of Wesley R. Elsberry.

Darwin and the Cell: Not Just Protoplasm

Post on the Afarensis blog.

DNA

Video in the How Creationism Taught Me Real Science series.

'Design vs. Chance' by PZ Myers, AAI 2009

Biologist PZ Myers' lecture at the Atheist Alliance International 2009 conference in Burbank, CA. This link goes straight to 7:24 in this video, where Myers talks about this issue.

Misconception that evolution requires organisms to become more complex over time

Claim CB932: Some modern species are apparently degenerate, not higher forms

Brief response in the Index to Creationist Claims in the TalkOrigins Archive.

See also 'Living fossils'