Biological complexity: protozoa sans mitochondria (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, May 30, 2016, 14:50 (3099 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: It is just that possibility I'm exploring, keeping in mind God is guiding.
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> dhw: I am happy that you are exploring it. But I would hate to see you lose your balance on a bit of slippery language. A “free complexity mechanism” that allows the bush “to spread as it wishes” cannot be “guided”. Your God may approve or disapprove of the products of the mechanism, and he may dabble, but it has to be autonomous. Otherwise, you are stuck with your 3.8-billion-year computer programme plus dabbling, with God responsible for every innovation and natural wonder, planning every branch of the weird bush.-Your point is exactly correct. If complexification is a free property anything can happen. And God only steps in to dabble, which means modify a form or possibly change course. Go forth and multiply becomes go forth and complexify. A reasonable alternative