Cell Memories (Identity)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 09, 2014, 02:14 (3758 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: God “stepped in” (as opposed to organisms inheriting kidney plans he'd placed in the first living cells billions of years back) presumably means he grabbed hold of various existing organisms and fiddled around with their cell communities (organs) so that he could turn some of them into kidneys.-I do not prefer dabbling by God as the method He used.-> dhw: In short, you believe in microevolution but not in macroevolution.-I believe we see micoevolution all the time. Macroevolution is totally unexplained by any scientific theory. Darwin's approach is simply: the final products of evolution are here, therefore they were produced by evolution, let's say by natural selection. Circular reasoning. The whole thing is a tautology. -> 
> dhw: I agree that we have to work backwards, and although I understand (and partly share) your scepticism concerning the inventive powers of cellular communities, I do not understand why you say it doesn't fit the history.-I don't think the intelligent cells have the intellectual power to create macroevolution all by themselves, which opinion is based upon my reaction to the work described by Shapiro.