Does the trial-and-error tinkering of Darwinism explain the supercomputer of the...

[bruce]

...human brain? Darwinism holds that natural selection (i.e., lucky pairings of organisms and environments) operates on random variation to make bacteria into humans in a purposeless, mindless natural process. But does trial and error account for building human beings with the brain capacity to hold and analyze the equivalent of 20 million books of information? Carl Sagan wrote: "The information content of the human brain expressed in bits is probably comparable to the total number of connections among the neurons--about a hundred trillion bits. If written*out in English, say, that information would fill some twenty million volumes, as many as in the world's largest libraries. The equivalent of twenty million books is inside the head of every one of us" (Cosmos, p. 278).
Aeon, nice video, though I fail to see its relevance to the question.

[imrod]

Intelligence tinkering stands a far better chance of creating something then accidents in the natural world.

[The real truthseeker]

As filtered through by the ordering process of natural selection, yes.

Added:

@Aeon's video is quite relevant. Here is why.

According to Ecclesiastes 1:5 the sun actually goes around the earth--as, of course, it must, since, according to Ps 93:1, Ps 96:10, and 1 Chr 16:30, the earth does not move. And the earth cannot move because, according to 1 Samuel 2:8 and Ps 75:3, it is placed on pillars. And because it is placed on pillars, it has an underside and an upper side, as confirmed by Isaiah 40:22 which indicates that the earth is a flat disk.

(The Hebrew word translated as "circle" in Isaiah 40:22 is chuwg, which means "circle" not "sphere." Strong's Concordance: "circle"..."describe a circle." Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament: "Circle...the earth conceived as a disc, Is 40:22." Hebrew-Aramaic and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: "draw round, make a circle." If a sphere were meant, the Hebrew word duwr would have been used.)

Since the biblical earth is flat, it has an underside and under the earth is the abyss, which is referred to several times in the Bible. That is also what is being referred to in Job 26:7 when it says that the earth hangs over nothing. (The original Hebrew word translated as "upon" in that passage in the KJV also means "over.") The actual sphere of the earth in space is not "suspended' or "hanging" "over" or "upon" nothing. It is orbiting the sun at 66,700 miles per hour.

There are several other verses in the Bible indicating the earth is flat, such as Nebuchadnezzar's vision in Dan 4:10-11 (if it were not flat the tree could not be seen from all the earth), and Dan 2:28 states that the visions of Nebuchadnezzar are from God. If the biblical god says the biblical earth is flat, it must be flat.

The original Hebrew word translated as firmament is raqiya, which is a noun derived from the Hebrew word raqa. That word is a verb meaning "to beat out," and is used in the bible in reference to beating out metal into plates or expanses of the metal (as in Exodus 39:3). So raqiya, as a noun, would literally mean "that which is beaten out."

The idea is that the firmament, or sky, is a solid, beaten out expanse or vault set on the rim of the flat disk of the earth. This understanding is confirmed in Job 37:18, which states:

"Can you beat out the vault of the skies as he does,
hard as a mirror of cast metal?" (New English Bible. .)

That idea is also implied in verses such as Deut 4:32:

"Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?"

The "ends of heaven" would be the base of the vault of heaven where it rests on the rim of the disk of the earth.

There, the Hebrew word translated as "beat out" (or "spread out" in other versions) is, as noted above, raqa. See also Ps 19:1-6, Isaiah 13:4-5, and Matt 24:31.

Also, the stars in the biblical cosmos are just lights set in the firmament. As mere lights in the sky, they will fall to the earth in the Last Days (Matt 24:29), something that is ridiculous considering the actual stars are other suns and many times larger than the earth.

So, according to the Bible the earth is a flat, immovable disk, supported by pillars and covered with a solid vault of heaven, the rim of which is is resting on the perimeter of the disk of the earth, and the stars are just lights set in the vault of heaven.

That this is the correct view of the biblical cosmos is shown by the fact that it describes a structure with parts that are fully consistent with each other. That structural consistency indicates that it accurately represents the cosmos as conceived by the ancient Hebrews and as its writers incorporated that view in the Bible.

Moreover, according to the Bible, earth is the centerpiece of creation, and in the Last Days the biblical god will destroy the earth and the heavens as part of his plan for mankind.

That is ridiculous considering that the difference between the size of the earth and the size of the universe is even greater than the difference between the size of a hydrogen atom and the size of the earth.

It is therefore the height of geocentric idiocy to think that the whole universe was created merely for the sake of the earth and its inhabitants. All of which goes to show that the Bible cannot be considered the word of God.

[Ancient Aeon]

Well, if you watch this video, you may doubt what you just said. Well, maybe just a little.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

[Jesus, the only Way]

No. There simply could never be enough billions of years.
What "natural selection" achieves it keeps destroying, given billions of billions of years.
Call it whatever they choose, this "evolution" hogwash is simply an excuse to deny their accountability to God who made them and persist in their unrepented sins, by substituting "theories" for ... "In the beginning, God .... "

[Colfer Melfofo]

Proof Evolution is a lie.

[Suspended Atheist]

"purposeless"
"darwinism"
you just lost all credibility with that red flag to creationist ignorance as to what natural selection is all about.

[marsel_duchamp]

Short answer is "Yes"
Long answer is "You need more education on the subject of natural selection and neural anatomy"

[Syam Mohan]

uhh theres no such thing called 'darwinism' :/..jus like theres ntng clled 'newtonism' or 'einsteinism'

[Rob]

Yes the long time span allows for spectacular results. Feedback loops are powerful and the process is not limited by our imaginations.