The biochemistry of cell adhesion and communication (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, December 27, 2015, 14:15 (3253 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: You jumped over my point that your approach requires itty-bitty steps. Committees of cells cannot do complex planning for complex jumps in evolution, which is what is seen.
dhw: How do you know? Nobody has witnessed the processes that produced these sudden jumps. You admit you "have no idea how/why God did this in the way He did", and yet you expect me to explain how cells did it.
DAVID: Because they can't, for the reason I gave above. to account for the gaps/jumps in evolution, there must be coherent planning in advance.-We are going through a period of evolutionary stasis, in which all we see is adaptation, as opposed to innovation. We know from current adaptations that cell communities can make rapid adjustments to themselves without advance planning - purely in response to environmental change. That is the only clue we have concerning the inventiveness that led to past innovations, but it is not inconceivable that given an environmental change that offered new possibilities (e.g. an increase in levels of oxygen), as opposed to pure threat, the same “intelligence” might respond by making more radical adjustments. I am, however, merely hypothesizing, just as you are with your divine 3.8-billion-year programme for every innovation.
 
DAVID: But there are experts with just the opposite point of view, and no one can prove either side for sure.
dhw: Then let us keep an open mind.
DAVID: I have every right to chose sides. I'm not on the picket fence.-Of course. Atheists use the same argument about God. I just wish people who have chosen would recognize that all the arguments are full of flaws, and would therefore not condemn other viewpoints as being “absolutely wrong”.