Evolution: a different view (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, May 23, 2015, 12:03 (3472 days ago) @ David Turell


> > dhw: Please reread your post of 2 May, as above. Your point both there and in your first book was that the changes were NOT used, and that was your evidence of pre-planning. You now agree that they WERE used, and so you have lost your “evidence” that they were pre-planned and prearranged.
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>David: Not at all. Your view and mine of that history totally differ. As human hands gained dexterity to the point that we do things like play a piano. violin, knit, etc, of course those hands were used in a prior less complex way by earlier hominids. It is the same with speech. I've admitted in retrospect that I should have been clearer in my first book. Of course used but not as used today in the requirements for modern speech as described by McCrone. Most of it started changing million of years before our quality of speech could be attained. Still preplanning to me, still an exaptation, because it was not used in the way we do now. Exaptation is still defined as used or unused as definitions from others I have provided in the past.-Doesn't the delicately crafted jewelry that I linked in that article kind of shoot holes in that theory? Jewelry making requires a lot of dexterity for the fine work.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.