More Denton: Reply to Tony (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, July 27, 2015, 20:02 (3407 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: You both seem to find your hypotheses believable, which is fine. They do explain why there are no precursors/intermediaries. But so does the hypothesis that organisms are possessed of intelligence, which produced the SAME changes by exploiting new environmental conditions. New inventions do not require precursors/intermediaries. It's a hypothesis as unproven (unprovable?) as your own, but at least it has the virtue of linking up with the fact that organisms CAN change their structures (by adapting), and with a notion that many experts in the field consider already proven: that cells/cell communities have some form of intelligence.-OR, cells/cell communities have intelligent information which they use in adaptation. Big difference in interpretation and just as likely. Take your choice, I have mine.