about how evolution works; with no challenge (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 24, 2015, 14:59 (3285 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: The disagreement between us is not over chance v. design, but over how jumps may have happened. The jumps in the whale series are "a prime example of my viewpoint": that existing organisms invent new ways of exploiting their environment. Each innovation results in a new “species”, but that species may also innovate. Hence eight “jumps” from land animal to whale.-You are assuming that large physiologic and phenotypic changes in each jump can occur without advanced planning and understanding of the problems involved in making such jumps. Even Darwin knew that logically it should occur by itty-bitty steps.-> 
> dhw: We are comparing two scenarios: 1) your God creating an inventive mechanism of almost infinite potential, leading to a vast variety of species, lifestyles and natural “wonders” that come and go; 2) your God preprogramming or personally inventing every single species, lifestyle and natural wonder, extinct and extant, all for the sake of one species.... Which of these two scenarios seems to fit in more logically with the history of life on Earth?-You are the one who wants to question each scenario. I've admitted I have no idea if each or both are correct.