Complexity doesn't come from simplicity

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 Acknowledgments

Claim

Complexity does not arise from simplicity.

Source

• Gitt, Werner, 1993. Did God Use Evolution?, p. 70

Responses

1. No one claims that evolution makes complexity arise from simplicity as if by magic. Rather, the complexity is generated by the addition and interaction of many simple improvements to a system.
2. There are plenty of examples of complexity originating from simplicity. Fractals, especially the early ones (called monster curves) can be generated by simple rules, and yet they are quite complex. The generation of complexity becomes even more likely when there are random influences.
3. This argument assumes that no thing can make another thing that is more complex than itself. If this were the case, human capacities would gradually degenerate over time as each generation would be simpler than the last (because each offspring could be, at best, as complex as its parents). If complexity cannot arise from simplicity, each step toward simplicity is permanent and therefore all things will eventually be as simple as possible. In a universe where this is true there would be no Creationists, or at least there wouldn't be any for very long.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

1. Straw Man
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Acknowledgments