Genome complexity: challenges naturalism (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, September 21, 2015, 20:25 (3351 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: You miss the point entirely. The origin of life and the evolution of life are a continuity, totally, and intimately related. First life had to be prepared for the process of evolution which followed in a totally continuous fashion.
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> dhw: But Darwin's theory of evolution does not deal with the origin of life. It leaves that question open. However, if “the Creator” breathed life “into a few forms of life or one”, doesn't that meet your theistic requirements?-To repeat: I know Darwin's theory starts after life arrives, but first life is a continuum with what came next. First life is intimately related to the process of evolution, as the article shows it must contain the preparation for what ever evolved next. I'm discarding Darwin's theory as to the method of evolution, and this article points out one of the strongest reasons I have reached my point of view.-> dhw: However, in Darwin's book, despite its misleading title, it is not natural selection that produces species but random mutations,-I know that.-> dhw:(“Evolution: the process by which living organisms have developed from earlier ancestral forms” - Penguin Dictionary of Science.) If you accept that, you accept the theory of evolution, as opposed to that of separate creation.-I accept evolution. I have my own theory as to how it works.