Innovation; Just for dhw (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, December 21, 2015, 15:45 (3261 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: “God may have invented the mechanism”: This can hardly be called ignoring the origin of life. The difference between us is your anthropocentric interpretation of evolution versus my free-for-all, driven by an autonomously inventive mechanism, possibly designed by your God and - Hypothesis 3 - allowing for dabbling.-I'll stick to anthropocentrism, thank you. My return to origin of life is to insist upon the presence of information, implanted from the beginning that presents the basis and blueprint for life and evolution. Of course it allows for dabbling, if that had to exist. -> DAVID: Our view still differs. The Cambrian started 37 phyla. This provides for balance of nature, about which you seem to deny the importance of a food source for everyone.
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> dhw: Who is “everyone”? The balance of Nature has constantly changed, and no doubt one of the causes/results (it's a vicious circle) of that shifting balance is that there is NOT enough food for “everyone”. How does that mean that the helter-skelter bush, including the 99% of extinct species, was designed to produce or feed humans?-You didn't think about 37 phyla. Why so many? Could humans have arrived if here were less? Actually there were many more that started and died away as you point out. As for balance of nature, sure it has changed through the centuries, but today humans are doing more to destroy it. In the past the changes drove innovation, but as I look at the bush of hominins, I still don't see a change in the balances of nature that required humans to appear. The balance supports us now, but we are in danger of losing it unless we accept the Bible's instruction that we have dominion over it. I'm simply reasoning backward from these considerations. Actually all you do is poke holes, but I like that because it refines my thinking.
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> dhw:I am delighted that so many new findings appeared between 12 December and 19 December to enable you to make this adjustment to your assumptions.-I adjust all the time, and you help. It is as if you are the natural selection for my conjectures.