Epigenetics: through phenotype changes? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, January 18, 2015, 15:44 (3598 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: You have agreed that either God did it all (preprogramming or dabbling), or he gave the weaverbirds (and millions of other organisms) the wherewithal to work it out for themselves. I know you don't know. You don't know whether God exists either, but you have very strong convictions. And you even have a strong belief that you know what God wanted to do when he started life. So I'm surprised you can't tell me which you find most likely out of these three possible roles for God in the design of the weaverbird's nest. -Yes I have strong convictions, because I look at the result of the evolutionary process, and humans are a totally unnecessary ending, based on the lesser animals and how they survive beautifully. I'm not looking at survival of the fittest, but appearance of the thinkers. So I've looked at the 'big picture' and I've concluded God did it, not on the basis of this one consideration but all the importance reasons listed in my books which express the totality of the evidence for God. I've used weaverbird nests as an example of complex instinct. But we don't know the full story on instinct. It exists, but just how is not explained. So to me it is a minor issue. It is enough for me to say, they have the nest-building instinct, God helped them, and I don't know how. That is all guess-work.