The Nature of Design (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, September 12, 2009, 17:00 (5549 days ago) @ George Jelliss

dhw takes up my aphoristic comment that "life is far too complex to have been designed. It could only have evolved."-George's aphorism is the most twisted logic presented here. As we find life to be more and more complex, that fact requires the previous appearance of more and more mutations, if the stepwise claim of Darwin is correct. The more mutations in a passive system, the more time required and the more contingencies appear. This takes us back to the Wister Symposium of 1967 with the conclusion there is not enough time for enough mutations. We are finding that there is an internal code system with miRNA, iRNA, sRNA, etc. And we see epigenetics processes apparently have a huge, previously unsuspected, role. These are drivers, not passive, not like Darwin's at random, bumbling proposal. Did evolution create those drivers or is DNA designed to push evolution along its progressive path?