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by David Turell , Sunday, March 15, 2015, 00:43 (3542 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Thank you, but that does not answer my question.He seems to be advocating separate creation of the species (broad sense). I know how reluctant you are to contradict anyone who says nasty things about Darwinian evolution, but do you agree with him that evolution through innovation in existing organisms (even if preprogrammed by your God) could not have happened because of destabilization?-The issue of destabilization is simply a view that if arbitrary constants are required for fine tuning, one can look at biology and find the same issue. It requires design. The fine tuning constants are just simply there, without a way to explain why they are that way. In life very specified organic molecules must be of a certain length and folding to have their function fit the requirements for life. There are millions of these molecules, all interlocking like a giant puzzle to create the spark of life. It is like a giant jigsaw puzzle which then creates a giant picture. As Tony just pointed out today ( March 14, 2015, 21:00) it is so complex it requires design. That is why my thoughts about evolution is that God guided it. Did He personally create each species or just guided a process He set in motion? I don't know, but it is one or the other. In other words, the universe is stable because God has set up the mechanism to keep it that way, and the same for evolution. Life, once started with its spark, must continue on the same path from the very first life. -This excerpt makes perfect sense to me, and I've known it for years from my thinking and research:-"Moreover the genome is filled with highly conserved functional elements, that if changed, will cause the biological system to become unstable. We know of the 50 billion proteins (and counting) in life, they all have extremely precise parameters for proper folding & function. If these precise parameters are changed, proper protein function will cease and problems soon arise in the organism. Herein lies the fatal dilemma for abiogenesis and Darwinian evolution, 100% of the biological system must slowly evolve, thus precise fixed elements are impossible to establish.-"This is why naturalists have no choice but to jump over the origins of life, because the cell has scores of highly conserved functional elements that can not be explained by gradual continual random changes. Any evolutionary mechanism with the ability to create a functional arrangement of sequences, also , because its blind, has the ability to destroy that same functional arrangement of sequences.-"An intelligent designer on the other hand would have the foresight to prevent essential functional sequences from being subject to random changes in order to keep the system stable and running, just as PC program codes, parts of a machine, or a buildings infrastructure are prevented from randomly changing for that same reason. Time and unimaginably phenomenal luck produce miracles that defy natural laws for - oddly enough - naturalists."