Panpsychism (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 21:30 (4146 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: If every cell in every organism has always been under tight control by the genome, and if early forms of life did not have a liver, an eye, a leg, a penis, and if God did not pre-programme livers, eyes, legs and penises to appear billions of years after he invented the mechanisms for evolution, and if God did not manufacture these organs separately, what initiated the changes within existing organisms to bring about these new forms?-Changes in the genome either as mutations or epigenetic alterations. The latter appear to be responses to challenges in a changing environment, climate, predators, eetc. The former are accidental in the main. Individual cells have some control over their role in individual organs with changes in their personal DNA, but the organs have to form first under the germ cells' DNA.