Biological complexity: protozoa sans mitochondria (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 20:22 (3111 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: And yet the free-ranging “phenotype complexifier mechanism” is capable of inventing “increasingly complex structural changes”, which “in some cases will lead to strange lifestyles as a secondary effect”. So organisms are capable of creating the changes to their bodies, but not of creating the lifestyles that result from them? Does that make sense?-Quoting me does not demonstrate that you fully understand my concept: IF organisms are given a 'complexifier mechanism' it will be under God's guidance controls. I've never changed from that position. Therefore they have it, but they don't really control it. As for lifestyles, I've given you examples of Giraffes with giant necks who graze and ignore trees. The necks allow acacia grazing, but it is not a required lifestyle as a result of the development, but it does allow an optional adaptation. It doesn't take much thought to: see tree, eat from tree, but it does require a detoxification process of the poisons. How did that develop, if the first attempts at nibbling induce death? My line of reasoning makes perfect sense if viewed from my propositions.