Innovation and Speciation: pre-planning (Evolution)

by dhw, Friday, May 23, 2014, 16:33 (3836 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Aw shucks, David, the issue here is not chance but the idea that the sea anemone's nervous system was "in advance of the need" and was part of God's "pre-planning". ......Don't you think this anthropocentric view of evolution is going just a bit too far?-DAVID: It depends on your point of view. Somehow or other we got from the first single-celled life to complex 'us'. Of course everything needed had to be developed in something living, that is how evolution creates complexity. I simply ask, did complexity develop through chance. Were we predestined? Or are we here by chance? I know how much you doubt chance.-You asked that simple question when I challenged the heading of this thread ("pre-planning") and the claim that the sea anemone's nervous system "antedated" any need for it. These two terms have nothing to do with chance, and everything to do with your anthropocentric interpretation of evolution. I do indeed doubt chance, which is why I have been championing the idea that there is an intelligent and inventive mechanism (origin unknown) within the cell/cell communities. That is a long, long, long way from claiming that the sea anemone's nervous system, not to mention every other human-type innovation in every other pre-human species., was not needed (by what? ... a question you have not answered), and is evidence of God's pre-planning for humans.