Genome complexity: mechanism stopped evolving (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, May 08, 2016, 13:05 (3122 days ago) @ David Turell

David's comment: The genome reached a practical limit to its complexity, is a reasonable explanation. That all life uses the same system means evolution was organized from the beginning by starting at one point. God's management is suggested.-dhw: Why “organized”? That all life uses the same system is the very essence of common descent. The starting point may have been managed by your God, but higgledy-piggledy, unorganized evolution would also have started at that point.-DAVID: You assume the standard form of DNA just appeared out of no where. Once again you are avoiding the absolute connectivity of origin of life and evolution. If DNA is present it had to be created by chance or design, no third way.-Once again you are switching the argument from evolution (Chapter 2) to origins (Chapter 1). Even bacteria have DNA. You quote me and then ignore my quote: “The starting point may have been managed by your God.” The disagreement between us concerns whether your God planned every step of evolution, or left his invention to pursue its own course.