Biological complexity: protozoa sans mitochondria (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, May 15, 2016, 17:46 (3114 days ago) @ David Turell

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. - DAVID: 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. - “Free-ranging” is precisely the type of mechanism I have been proposing: i.e. your God does not “guide” organisms to innovate or pursue a particular lifestyle or create a natural wonder (or complexify), but they do it themselves. In my theistic version, I also allow for an occasional dabble. I will refer back to this in the discussion under “algae”.