Biological complexity: protozoa sans mitochondria (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, May 14, 2016, 14:03 (3115 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Adapting to the environment or innovating in order to exploit new opportunities clearly explains all the weird parts of the bush of life, whereas God specifically guiding all the weirdnesses of evolution in order to produce and feed humans, though they have nothing to do with humans, is confusing.-If one takes as a proposition that God created a complexification process, or better, a drive to complexity that is free-ranging, and allowing for Darwin-style survival testing, then all God would have to do is tweak here or there until the most complex, humans, arrived. No need for poor automatic organisms trying to improve, as they automatically become more complex, and perhaps more survivable. A somewhat deist approach which also uses an extension of Denton's structuralism as the basis for evolution, by viewing evolution as basic structures driven to further complexity. It certainly fits the whale puzzle.