Genome complexity: mechanism stopped evolving (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, May 10, 2016, 16:50 (3120 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw:If I accept the possibility of your God starting life and evolution, I can hardly be accused of ignoring origins. ...Here are the facts as we know them: life started, vast numbers of organisms evolved through vast numbers of innovations, most died out but humans are here, along with the duck-billed platypus, the weaverbird's nest, and my dear friends the ants. There are various ways in which these facts can be linked in a pattern. You have offered one, and I have offered an alternative which seems to me to bind all these sections together.-DAVID: I'm pointing out one aspect of your narrative: first life started with an early genome (DNA plus modifying parts) at time zero. It is still here. Continuum. The rest is talk around the issue. I know Darwin skipped origin and yes evolution follows, but there is no gap in the presence of the genome.. Continuum. All discussion must cover all of the continuum.-What is “the” issue? Here is a theistic continuum: God created life, the genome and whatever other mechanism was necessary for organisms to evolve; vast numbers of organisms evolved etc.…(see bold above for the rest). One pattern: God left the mechanism to follow its own course (perhaps with the occasional dabble), which is why we have the higgledy-piggledy history of evolution, with 99% of species disappearing, weaverbirds building complicated nests, bugs lodging in carnivorous plants, and crocodiles having special vision. Another pattern: God planned and guided the 99% disappearance, the nest, the bugs and the crocky eyes because they were essential to the balance of nature, so that he could fulfil his purpose of producing and feeding humans.
 
DAVID: […] things become more and more clear to me. I'm sorry for your fuzziness.
-Strange. I find the first pattern somewhat less fuzzy than the second.