Biological complexity: protozoa sans mitochondria (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 19, 2016, 22:54 (3110 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: 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. -> dhw: I asked you (under “algae”) to make a choice: did God guide all the complexifications or did organisms work them out autonomously apart from when he occasionally dabbled. Here is your reply: “I've agreed that God might have implanted a phenotype complexifier mechanism which operated on its own but under his watchful eye.” What does “on its own” mean, if not autonomously? And watching is not guiding. -I assume you know my thinking. I can envision an automatic mechanism that starts a complexity, but if God doesn't approve, he watches and then corrects the course. It is what I have always meant by 'semi-automatic'. I forget you are the English Professor and I am sometimes sloppy in my descriptions.-> 
> dhw: Re giraffes and whales, see “Weird animal forms”. I don't know why you have switched to detoxification, but once again if an innovation is to work, the whole organism must fit in with the novelty, i.e. all the cell communities must cooperate.-Why? Remember, detox of acacia was a requirement for the giraffes' development, simultaneous with the neck elongation. Shows how the so-called improvement is overly complex.