How epigenetics works (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, January 12, 2013, 00:56 (4335 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw;You are repeating part of my post of 09 January at 19.21: "you yourself have made the point ... from the survival of bacteria to the non-necessity of the human brain ... that evolution did not REQUIRE innovation". Your questions concerning the human brain can be applied to EVERY innovation, since earlier forms of life have survived without legs, wings, eyes etc. Should we say that evolution is spidercentric, because spiders' webs were not required,
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> David: ... Why God chose to advance through evolution is unknown to us....
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> It is as if God said let's throw everything at the fan and see where it lands, but since the process ended up with consciousness, obviously a very desirable goal, I must conclude that this shotgun approach was pre-ordained or guided to this desired result.
> -I have commented several times on this observation, but I feel it is worth repeating. IT WAS DONE THIS WAY BECAUSE HAD TO BE DONE THIS WAY! No other way would have worked out to be a self-sustaining ecosystem. The lump of rock that was proto-earth was every bit as inhospitable to modern life as deep space is. We needed heat, weather patterns, and a way of recycling land; hence those darned earthquakes and volcanoes that DHW likes to lament. We NEED them or we could not exist here. The same with early bacterial stages of life. They were an absolute necessity for any other form of life to exist. Even IF God had just decided to create creatures from thin air, fully formed and evolved, they still would have needed all of the ground work that came before them or they would have been dead in under a minute. -There was no blind chance involved, nor was there any shot gun scatter approach taken, any more than it is a 'shotgun approach' for an automobile engineer to make sure that there is access to rubber, vynyl, steel, copper, oil, petroleum, glass(all of which could be broken down further into base components) was available BEFORE he tried to build a car. Let's say you were the master engineer, and you had the blueprints for a Roadster(or whatever your car of choice is), and you wanted to build it but there was no infrastructure. You could envision every aspect, right down to the top speed, the wind in your hair, the winding roads running through the hills. If none of that, nor the chemical factories, assembly plants, fueling stations, highways, etc etc etc etc were in place, in order to achieve your goal you would have to begin from the beginning.

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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.