Weird animal forms (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 19, 2016, 23:08 (3108 days ago) @ dhw

Davhd: why not look at the odd-ball species as aberrant attempts at complexity which really are side channels to evolution, resulting in the weird bush of life.[/i]
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> dhw: Whenever I have asked you to explain the reason for the bush, it has been the balance of nature, to pave the way for God's purpose of producing and feeding humans. If you stand by that, then my question is fair. If you've given up on that thesis, in favour of complexity for its own sake, so organisms can fight it out in a Darwinian free-for-all for survival, I shan't complain.....The weird bush of life is very simply explained if one allows for organisms pursuing their OWN paths to survival and/or improvement.-Nature is in balance at all times, and supplies energy so life can continue. The weird bush is the result of increasing complexity. That is obvious from what we see evolution producing. You have your approach to how the complexity happens, I have mine. I don't think we will bridge the gap.
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> DAVID: Look at it from structuralism theory... I think Denton is on to something.
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> dhw: I'm afraid I don't understand how Denton's structuralism, with its "natural laws" and patterns, explains why pre-whales took to water and the pre-giraffe grew a long neck.-All I can guess, if one starts with basic structural patterns, and adds a drive to complexity, anything can appear and does, and provides a balance of nature.