Innovation and Speciation: pre-planning (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, May 23, 2014, 18:49 (3838 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: 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.-My thought is simple. Evolution builds from one cell to our trillion of cells and processes. Evolution simply builds from simple to complex, an obvious arrangement, but complexity was not required to appear. Bacteria have been successful ever since they arrived. The flip side of my conjecture about pre-planning is that it is an obvious answer to why complexity progressed at all if not needed.