Trilobite eyes (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 14:41 (4261 days ago) @ David Turell


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> > Tony: Advancing forms of life is not, in general, what I have an issue with. ...... However, there is a vast difference between saying that "dogs have changed and developed into different dogs throughout the eons" versus "dogs have changed and developed into different cats throughout the eons." The commonalities between designs is just as likely to mean a common designer as it is common descent, as are similarities in the DNA considering that all creatures have to live in the same/similar environments, share similar physiology, and work within the same physics/chemical framework.
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>David: DNA is a common denominator, but I theorize that it contains pre-planned codes we haven't found yet. Example: humans break out from primate forms. It started 22 million years ago with slight vertebral changes to prepare for upright posture. The upright skeletal changes alone are enormous and create a complex problem in human birth. The female pelvis is not birth friendly and requires a tortuous route to expell the kid. And how did the female pelvis adapt to the enlarging hominin heads; not by hunt and peck. And finally that enlarging head had no driving environmental requirement. Primates are still primates just like they have always been, and we are different in kind, not degree with our braininess. BUT, we evolved just like the rest of evolution, in a helter-skelter set of directions. The bush of life also shows a bush of hominins, to finally one species form, H. sapiens.
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> No question God planned US, but only He knows why he used the method He did.-Those are some statements that I can get behind. Different in kind, not degree. I think that pretty much sums up my whole contention with mainstream evolution. I look at nature and I see 'kinds', boundaries that are never crossed no matter how much biologist want them to be. I see variation within those 'kinds', to a mind boggling degree, each change so complex that it is a miracle it ever happened to begin with.

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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.