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by David Turell , Tuesday, November 03, 2015, 12:22 (3306 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Your comment does not explain the gaps in complexity which in the Cambrian is enormous.
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> dhw: As I commented at the end, no one has an explanation. That does not invalidate my point.-It seems you cannot see the enormous jump in complexity, whole organ systems from simple sheets of cells requires planning. Only a mind can do that.-> DAVID: You miss my point. The excuse for gaps is that soft tissue won't fossilize, but it does and it doesn't close the gaps.
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> dhw: You miss my point. No one has an explanation for the gaps, regardless of whether the fossils are bones or soft tissue.-Of course there is no logical explanation at a natural level. that is why the supernatural is required.
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> dhw: If bacteria are individual, sentient, cognitive, intelligent beings, as some eminent scientists claim, then some will follow the same old routine but others will explore new possibilities, especially when they combine. Multicellularity is the key to innovation, and innovation - as I keep saying - is not a matter of survival but of improvement. Improvement is not “required”, but is the product of intelligent “minds”.-But multicellularity is an enormous jump in and of itself. Simply invoking it does not solve the problem of producing it from simple single celled organisms, which you presume act like an ant colony.
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> dhw: Or rather know-nothingism. Why pretend you know something you can't possibly know? That is why you have to resort to faith.-Inference to best solution.