Life's biologic complexity: Automatic molecular actions (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 03, 2016, 14:31 (2694 days ago) @ dhw

dhw; When we say an event is bad luck, of course we mean it is not the victim’s fault! Yes, we are looking at sudden changes in the environment, and the question is whether your God planned them or not. If he did, it was the victims’ bad luck that he deliberately created them in such a way that they would not survive (unless, of course, he didn’t know what he was doing

But He did know. The Dinos couldn't survive the asteroid and the resultant volcanic eruptions in Siberia, but the little mammals did and we are here. It appears God knew exactly how to handle it, but I admit I'm not sure God orchestrated each environmental event. I have some regions of my theories where this is the case.

DAVID: It is the organism who is 'unlucky', not prepared for what God throws at him.

dhw: Precisely. And since, according to you, only God is capable of creating the innovations that have led to speciation, God is responsible for making the organisms incapable of withstanding what he now apparently quite deliberately throws at them. For some reason which has never been clear to me, you object to this reasoning.

Explained See above

DAVID: Perhaps you understand my interpretation of Raup now. God guided evolution and extinctions were one of His methods of control.

dhw: I understand now that you have finally decided that your God was responsible for Chixculub and all the other natural catastrophes and/or other major environmental changes, and you have finally decided that your God deliberately programmed or dabbled 99% of species in such a way that they would be incapable of withstanding what he threw at them, because – presumably – he had to create them and then get rid of them in order to produce humans. I can think of a much simpler explanation for the course of evolution!

And what is that, which fits the facts of the history of evolution?