Evolution v Creationism: guided evolution? dhw? (Evolution)

by dhw, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 13:08 (3285 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by dhw, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 13:21

DAVID: I always look for the rational answer. You don't see the rationality. I don't know why the whale appeared, crazy as its adaptations have to be. Humans are here for no good reason based on Darwin's approach to evolution. Why did hominim's have a better grip before grip was necessary. I keep presenting inferences and you never pick up on them. Exaptation's are gifts like candy. Why? the preplanning so so obvious if hou are willing to think about it.-You look for the rational answer to the problem of the whale. You don't know it, but when I offer a rational answer, I'm told not to look for rational answers. As for the grip story, I'm deeply, deeply sceptical. I really don't think for one minute that our ancestors suddenly found they had a new grip but didn't know what to do with it. It seems far more likely to me that the grip developed because our ancestors needed it for one purpose or another. I suspect that the same applies to all so-called exaptations. An organ develops for a particular use, and then as conditions change, the organisms adapt the existing organs for other uses. Fins becoming legs, for instance. Why such natural adaptations should have required preplanning 3.7 billion years ago is not obvious to me at all. Nor can I see why your God would dabble to create a grip his darlings didn't need at the time. 
 
DAVID: I believe I was hired on to combat your stance, and make your picket fence a very uneasy position.

The lady who invited you did a great job! And I am happy to award you the dhw Medal for Persistent Picket-Pocking.