Innovation and Speciation: pre-planning (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, May 24, 2014, 20:30 (3618 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: We have long since agreed that the success of bacteria shows that complexity was not required.-So why did complexity happen? With or without purpose. Teleology is the issue.-> dhw: That does not mean that every innovation was geared to the production of humans! -But perhaps it does. Either interpretation is valid.-> dhw:Once the intelligent, inventive mechanism (of unknown origin) was in place, wouldn't you say "spraying inventions in every direction" sounds less like pre-planning than an almighty free-for-all?-Again why was life given this amazing ability to invent all sorts of strange and exotic life forms? My answer is it allowed for the development of all the necessary complex parts of humans.-> dhw: A not unusual view of evolutionary history.-A usual materialistic view lacking the consideratioon of the possibility or perhaps, the probability of teleology.