New Oxygen research; abundance and Cambrian (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 29, 2016, 00:53 (2977 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: What causes the drive to improvement? My point is the appearance of multicellularity (complexity) causes more problems which have to be solved, so why bother. If evolution is a chance process there logically should be no drive. Therefore the drive comes from God.
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> dhw: Why bother? In order to improve - hence limbs, senses, brains etc. The issue between us is not the cause of the drive - I keep agreeing that God is a possible cause - but its existence and purpose. You told me I was confining evolution to the drive for survival, which I was not. I have explained why there is very little difference between your drive for complexity and my drive for improvement, and now you switch back to the origin of the drive! - Because I view complexity as the main drive, and it may or may not bring improvement or survival! Improvement is a judgmental approach. The appearance of complexity is obvious, but 99% of all species produced by the process have disappeared!