Epigenetics: Passing the effects (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 08, 2015, 20:30 (3577 days ago) @ dhw


> So what part is not autonomous (other than the obvious fact that organisms cannot do what organisms cannot do)? This is why I have challenged you on your insistence that your God must have given personal demonstrations.... I notice you have skipped that passage.-Just covered the issue of instinct in the balance of nature thread.
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> DAVID: Humans and other animals reason. I've never denied that. However you continue to fail to see the enormous difference in capacity humans have, and the fact that there was no necessity in evolution to automatically invent humans. 
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> dhw: I am fully aware of the enormous difference,... (There was no necessity for evolution to have come up with the duck-billed platypus, so what does that prove?)-They are part of the higgledy-piggledy bush. We are above it.