Teleology & evolution: Stephen Talbott's take (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 21:04 (3070 days ago) @ dhw

dhw; You don't see the complexities involved in providing the first cells with a computer programme to create every single innovation and natural wonder in the 3.8-billion- year history of life on Earth so far (possibly even with multiple choices to select from), - You are creating more complexities for the origin of life by leaving out the alternate concept of dabbling. That is why I offer both. - > dhw: and to equip bacteria with the solution to every single problem - all this to be passed down through millions of generations and organisms, surviving countless environmental changes that may or may not have been planned as well? - Again, not remembering: bacteria only have a few reactions to exhibit. Approach food, avoid noxious material, quorum sense, horizontally transfer DNA. Not many reactions, are there? Not overly complex. And besides the very first E. coli still exists, because all they do to reproduce is split in two. Where is the complexity?