Precambrian environment (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, May 25, 2013, 11:36 (4202 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: As sets of cells experiment within living organisms, other organisms may take up whatever is successful and develop it for themselves. We humans do this all the time, but maybe the same processes apply throughout Nature, as individual intelligences come up with new ideas. How they first came into being we don't know, but isn't this a convincing explanation of how evolution itself actually works? No random mutations, no missing fossils, shared ideas, cooperation, convergence, individual experiments and innovations leading to speciation...all derived from the mechanisms within "the intelligent cell".-DAVID: I have no argument with this as long as we stick to the agreement that it all stems from a brilliantly designed genome to accomplish the changes.-We have devised a new theory of evolution, for which we are sure to win the Nobel Prize. But all must be clear between us before we travel to Stockholm. The question of what produced the brilliant design must remain open!