DILEMMAS (Evolution)

by GateKeeper , Saturday, November 01, 2014, 12:43 (3673 days ago) @ dhw


> Sorry, I obviously didn't make that part of my post clear. The context is evolution, and I'm suggesting that when the environment changes, organisms will either perish, adapt, or possibly innovate. 
>-It's me, not you. I think organism will make use of all three. "perish" gets a little tricky when we start answering what an organism is and what is the system is. maybe the "system" and the "organism" are one in the same. In the same vain that your heart, circulatory system, and "you" are the same thing depending on how we are discussing things. You like that "vain" use, a little humor to lessen all that hard core thinking It makes me brain smoke. -
 
> I don't know your views on evolution, GK, and am beginning to wonder if I know David's, but if you believe in the theory that all living organisms except the very first descended from earlier living organisms, you are looking at examples every waking moment of your life. The question then is not whether, but how complex comes from less complex.
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>-I think evolution seems to work just like the rock record and experiments shows it works. The only question left for me is the "knowingly dabbling" component of the discussion. I can't really answer that so the next thing I can do is come up with solutions that seem to match observations with the least amount of assumptions.-"no nothing" doesn't make any assumptions. In fact it doesn't do anything at all. But if I address this "no nothing", I do not see "more complex" arising from "less complex"; anywhere. So I move on. "Old guy in the sky", well, That makes more assumptions than a star makes neutrino's. If we continue to argue these two "end points" the rift will never close in our lifetimes.