Topsy-turvy evolution (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, August 05, 2013, 11:28 (4129 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: It all points to the idea that within early life there was already a mechanism (let us call it the "intelligent cell/genome") which enabled organisms to adapt and innovate through the cooperation of cells and communities of cells. Adaptation and innovation come about through responses to changes in the environment ... either by necessity or because the changes allow for new organs and organisms.
 
DAVID: You persist in missing the point, now even raised by Darwinist scientists. From the precambrian ooze with bags and worm forms for life, perhaps with early light sensing spots, suddenly came the trilobites and the Anamilocaris, 6 feet long shrimp-like preditor, with eyes to hunt by, digestive tracts to absorb by, nerve circuits to run their bodies by, kidneys to excrete by. And all this came from intelligent cells who sat around cogitating, inventing information to create these new organ forms de novo? And then without trial and error to shake out the kinks and the mistakes, no natural selection to mediate everything worked from the beginning? Poppy cock! The fossils are full blown. Nothing like the Darwin theory here.-dhw; It seems to me that ALL the mysteries of evolution disappear once you accept the existence of the one basic mechanism, apart of course from how it originated in the first place. Attribute it to your God if you like, and that gives you "theistic evolution". -DAVID: Exactly!!!-We are trying to understand how evolution works. We agree that Darwin's random mutations and gradualism DON'T work. We agree that there has to be an adaptive, innovative mechanism, and we have agreed to call it the intelligent cell/genome. So long as we attribute the mechanism to God, you therefore have no problem with any of my arguments. So what point do I persist in missing?