Biological complexity: evolution of ion exchange pathways (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, July 27, 2015, 20:10 (3407 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I share your enthusiasm for the marvellous complexity of the cell, for its amazing self-reliance when it was on its own, for its astounding capacity to cooperate with other cells and form new communities that coordinate perfectly. .....Why and how would they have cooperated in the first place, and why and how would they have done so to form new organs and new organisms? “Information controls” suggests they were preprogrammed to do so, which entails a set of programmes for the millions of innovations and natural wonders being passed down through thousands of millions of years and organisms etc. etc. - you know the problem.-With adequate intelligent information in the DNA, cells were either shown how to innovate or had a mechanism to do so under guidelines. Either way works.-> dhw: You see, some actions might LOOK as if they're automatic, but that doesn't mean they ARE automatic. They might also be the product of intelligence. And my friend himself agrees that both hypotheses are equally likely. We just have to pick the one we consider more convincing.-Just stick to intelligent information and you've got the answer! then both are equally likely and you are allowed to choose the method you think is the best answer to the riddle.