An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by David Turell , Monday, September 22, 2014, 19:50 (3713 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: No problem for me. So now we have a mechanism that can do “a great deal of its own advancement planning” (you: 11 September), is situated in the genome, and directs cellular activity. This is all part of the evolutionary process “that God could have started” (you: 11 September). Agreement at last. Except that if it can do its own planning, the mechanism in the genome is obviously not simply obeying instructions programmed into it 3.7 billion years ago.-Remembering that I don't know how God managed evolution but I presume He used it, I suggest an inventive mechanism emplanted by God as a special layer in the genome can respond to new environmental changes, which changes may or may not be planned by God. Did God hurl the Chicxulub asteroid, or did it just happen as an independent event in an evolving universe not entirely controlled by God? There is no way of knowing. -So my view of Shapiro, et. al. is that the genome is in control, and the cells really bend to genome control, while being allowed some attempts at adaptation by self-methylation of the DNA. And latest research shows that methylation is lasting thru generations, but in no sense that speciation occurs by that mechanism.