Trilobite eyes (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Friday, March 29, 2013, 09:29 (4049 days ago) @ dhw


> OK, you theorize that it was all pre-planned, and I theorize that it evolved without a plan. No doubt many innovations were not "from necessity", and maybe evolution itself was not necessary, since bacteria have survived to this day. But when conditions allowed, the intelligent genome produced its own inventions ... all part of the "open-ended experimentation" that characterizes the higgledy-piggledy bush of evolution. Every innovation you list can just as easily have been the product of the intelligent genome ... whether invented by God or not - without a divine "push". After 3.8 billion years of evolution, the energy within changing materials could have learned all it needed to know for its increasingly complicated experiments.
> -I wanted to dig a little deeper into this. Which innovations, in particular, were not a necessity? Bear in mind that you can not look simply at the individual species, but have to consider the biosphere as a whole.

--
What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.