An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, September 02, 2014, 21:04 (3517 days ago) @ dhw

DHW: My theory may seem impossible based on what we now know, but your theory is based on a “hidden area of the genome” which you “expect to be found”. What's the difference? Current knowledge sheds no light on the mystery of innovation. Therefore there are gaps in our knowledge, and your theory depends just as much as mine on speculation as to what lies in those gaps. 
> -The idea of progressive evolution through innovation is also just speculation without evidence. Let me rephrase this argument:-We are trying to explain something that we have not observed but speculate about with theoretical processes that we have not observed but speculate about.

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