New Oxygen research; abundance and Cambrian (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, September 26, 2016, 12:46 (2980 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID's comment: Of course adequate oxygen is a seeming requirement for the evolution of complex Cambrian animals. The authors' comments are a tautology which do not explain the sudden jump or gap demonstrated by the Cambrian Explosion itself.

dhw; As I understand it, they are confirming the theory that an increase in oxygen triggered the Cambrian explosion. According to my hypothesis, this would have created conditions suitable for organisms to innovate. According to your hypothesis, God took advantage of the environmental change (or maybe initiated it - you never seem to be quite sure whether he controls the environment or not) to do lots of dabbles, or he had preprogrammed the first cells with all the innovations, and existing organisms then chose which programmes to switch on when the extra oxygen arrived.-DAVID: However it happened once the necessary level of oxygen appeared, the Cambrian animals popped up, which fits right into my theory that there is a deliberately implanted drive to complexity in the whole process of evolution.-It fits right into my hypothesis that there is a drive to improvement as well as survival in the whole process of evolution. That drive may have been deliberately implanted, and your God may have given organisms the wherewithal to implement it by themselves, as opposed to his personally preprogramming or dabbling every single new development, extant and extinct, in order to balance nature in order to provide food in order to keep life going in order to prepare the way for humans. (I hope I've got that right.)