Proving common descent (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 17:45 (4393 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw: If you reject the idea that the cell communities that make up every organism exploited new conditions by inventing new forms, exactly which part of these organisms do you think God pre-programmed to turn eventually into humans?-DAVID: I believe there is a yet-to-be-found complexity program in DNA that drives evolution to more complex forms.-Thank you. As far as it goes, that seems to me to fit in perfectly well with the "intelligent cell" idea. However, you believe that God preprogrammed evolution to culminate in us humans. In my effort to pin you down, let me now repeat the background belief we share: namely, that every living form is descended from earlier living forms. No innovation can take place from scratch, because every one must take place within an existing organism. You also believe that "the species that came and went were preparation for the next step." Do you then believe that God preprogrammed every single evolutionary innovation, leading to every single species, into the first creatures with DNA?