DILEMMAS (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, October 31, 2014, 22:24 (3674 days ago) @ dhw


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> dhw: We have agreed - my theistic version - that God endowed organisms with an inventive mechanism capable of variations he has not preprogrammed (he does not dictate WHAT they are going to invent). So once more the same question: do you believe God preprogrammed the first cells with the four-generation life cycle and migration pattern of the monarch butterfly? Or do you think he dabbled with existing types of butterfly to create this special pattern? Or do you think the butterflies (through their IM) worked it out for themselves?-The multi-stage monarch molting/ migrating is a pattern from God. Too complex for an IM. God may not dictate, but offers guidelines in the IM.-> dhw: See also my entry under "Nature's Balance". These examples may help us both to clarify what we think may be the range of the inventive mechanism whose existence you now agree is a possibility, and also what you think may the extent of God's control over evolution.-Ant raft is a learned event. An IM can do it IMHO. Same with giraffe neck length, padttern is set and change is not major.