Innovation and Speciation: pre-planning (Evolution)

by David Turell , Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 17:38 (3830 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:There are vast numbers of giant leaps between bacteria and us. Are you saying that each one was pre-planned for the sake of producing humans? I've allowed for purpose in 2) and 3), which seem to me to fit in better with the higgledy-piggledy bush of evolutionary comings and goings than "antedating the need" and "pre-planning". May I ask why you think the latter is a more likely alternative?-I was not clear. I don't see how there can be a chosen method. You want exactitude and I don't have it. I simply see purpose in humans appearing, and evolution was obviously used. That is as far as I can go, except that chance is not an answer, so there had to be directionality by some method within the evolutionary process. This questioning shows the background of your agnosticism. You want exactness and such proofs don't exist. I am distilling odds in my head, not Matt's approved method.