Genome complexity: challenges naturalism (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 17:13 (3137 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: QUOTE: “Aside from the obvious (and intriguing) challenge of understanding the enormous complexity of life's information payload, evolution purports to explain its origins.”
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> I accept all your arguments about continuity etc. but your author here is also doing precisely the same as Dawkins: offering a gross misrepresentation in order to make his case sound more convincing. The theory of evolution does not purport to explain life's origins.-The statement you quote is over reaching I admit, however it is not a distortion, if, as you say, you accept the continuity. First life had to contain the preparations for evolution, thus the continuum. Evolution begins with first life, not just after life arrives, because first life contains the information permitting alterations, that allows for evolution. Of course, any theory of evolution does not explain the origin of life. There is a fine distinction here. We have quarreled about this before. You cannot disconnect origin from evolution.