New Oxygen research; pre-Ediacaran (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, July 25, 2016, 22:21 (3043 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw: What do mean by my “simple way”? There is nothing simple about billions of cells cooperating to create a complex organ. 
DAVID: By simple I mean you are proposing progress to complex plans without a planning brain to coordinate all the complex parts. Hunt and peck?-We should avoid using the word “brain” in this context. I assume that not even your God has a brain, unless you are suddenly going to tell us that he is actually a physical being. A guiding intelligence for each plan may “emerge” from the cooperation of the many intelligent cell communities within the existing body. This is no more fantastic than your own preprogramming/dabbling hypothesis.-dhw: We KNOW that cells alter their own structure to adapt. That is not planning for the future: it is an intelligent response to the requirements of the present. I suggest that innovation may be an extension of this process: an intelligent response to new opportunities offered by the present.
DAVID: Adaptation is what you are describing, and cells can do that, but how does your method get to new species? This is why my God dabbles. This still sounds like chance hunt and peck. It doesn't answer the problem of the Cambrian Explosion; only God does.-As we keep repeating, NOBODY knows how ANY method gets to new species. That is why we theorize. We have both used adaptation as a clue to a possible method, but are you now suggesting that your God preprogrammed and/or dabbled every single adaptation as well as every single innovation as well as every single natural wonder? “God” doesn't answer the Cambrian problem. Your answer is that God preprogrammed or dabbled, and mine is that they may have had the intelligence (possibly God-given) to do it themselves. All three “methods” provide questionable answers to the problem of the Cambrian.