EVOLUTION AND PURPOSE (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, November 27, 2015, 14:45 (3067 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Innovations are jumps, and I should have confined my parallel process to when organisms do need to adapt quickly, for instance in polluted waters. -> Once again, my point is that the adaptive mechanism does not plan in advance but responds to the environment, and I am suggesting that the same mechanism may be responsible for innovation: no planning involved, but responding inventively as opposed to adaptively. You clearly agree that this is what happens, but you insist that it had to be preprogrammed or personally organized by your God.-My point is that these adaptations do not change the animals into different species, We don't now how new species happen, and I have concluded there must be an onboard 'drive to complexity' placed there by God with either full or partial control over final results. 
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> DAVID: I will continue to poke loopholes into your invented cell community committee intelligence.
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> dhw: And the loopholes are very real. Nobody has an explanation for evolutionary innovation, but we do not have evidence that cell communities possess the intelligence necessary to produce it. You are absolutely right. At the same time, we do not have evidence that 3.8 billion years ago your God planted a computer programme in the first cells to cover every single innovation,....Am I right, or am I right?-At some point one develops faith or not.