First multicellularity: algae (Evolution)

by David Turell , Monday, May 16, 2016, 18:20 (3111 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:Multiply these examples by the 99% of all species (extinct) which we couldn't have eaten anyway. Cohesive argument? -Cohesive when you finally accept that the balance of nature is of prime importance. Ask the Australians who are struggling with what their initial settlers gave them.
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> dhw: You stated that God gave the instructions for bacteria to solve their problems, but not currently (“no instructions in present time”) - and so unless he kept popping in new instructions every time there was a new problem right up until now (an equally far-fetched scenario), he must have put them in at the beginning.-Yes. I think an ocean is an ocean from the beginning of life, and basically all the issues for bacteria have been handled from the beginning. Look at the extremophiles on land (later) and living at ocean bottom vents (earlier). Bacteria have the ability (God-given) to survive from the beginning of life.-> 
>dhw: Stark choice for you, using your own terms: does God “guide” every complexification (innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder) or do organisms do it autonomously apart from when he occasionally dabbles?-I've agreed that God might have implanted a phenotype complexifier mechanism which operated on its own but under his watchful eye. Remember, I've never known how much is implanted from the beginning and how much is dabble. There is no way of knowing at this stage of our knowledge.