Cambrian Explosion: another article on early brains (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 18:10 (3294 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Yes, I accept created evolution. Easy step once one realizes that this universe requires planning by an intelligent source.-dhw: But what are the many possible methods for “created evolution” apart from a computer programme and direct intervention?-DAVID: The on-board inventive mechanism for one. Directed climate control to directly influence organisms into epigenetic changes is another. Epigenetic changes by themselves, which are part of an IM. I haven't come up with any others, in part because our science is very incomplete concerning all the layers of control of the genome.-But your on-board inventive mechanism has always been preprogrammed by your God, since you insist that the innovations, lifestyles etc. are too complex for organisms to have invented by themselves. It's just another expression for your on-board computer programme. In the past you have expressed uncertainty over your God's control of the environment, but even if he controls it, the epigenetic changes must either be preprogrammed, directly implemented by God, or organized by the cell communities themselves. Since you generally insist that they are “automatic”, that can only mean they are preprogrammed! Your many possibilities still shrink to preprogramming or dabbling, unless you also allow for the possibility that your God created an inventive mechanism which could autonomously find ways of adapting to or exploiting the environment in which it finds itself.