More Denton: Reply to Tony (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, July 27, 2015, 22:30 (3407 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


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> >DHW: You both seize on the fact that no precursors/intermediates have been found. ..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. ..
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> Tony: True. New inventions require new information, and intelligence. Given that humans cannot even design a single cell, you are implying that a single cell, or cell community, is vastly superior in terms of knowledge and ability than humans. While I conceded this may be possible, I consider it highly unlikely.-This is simple logic that I cannot get across to dhw. A new species requires not just a re-working of information in DNA, it requires planning and development of new control DNA information to manage the new complexities of the new species. We don't know how speciation works, but what I have described is an absolute requirement for speciation to occur. 'Cell communities' do not have the capacity nor the communication skills to accomplish this in any theoretical manner. There is also a time problem In advanced species with sexual reproduction, it requires several generations to fix a change in the genome, with the result that species change takes a long time period, especially in humans with a 18-20 years generation span. Compare that to the abrupt appearance of the Cambrian animals. Like going from 0 to 60 in 3.5 seconds.