Different in degree or kind: Egnor's take (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, October 23, 2016, 19:25 (2953 days ago) @ dhw

David’s comment Under “Explaining Crispr”: Note these are man-made modifications of bacterial defense enzymes. What is always striking to me is that bacteria in evolving these huge molecules had to invent them. Enzymes are giant in size and have loci which will grab both sides of a reaction, hold the molecules together and force a reaction that would otherwise take years to occur. Chance logically cannot create this. Saltation is logical.

dhw: A very striking comment. First of all, saltation is not the opposite of chance, but simply lengthens the odds against chance.

Saltation means a giant change, not Darwinian evolution.

dhw: So much more logical than insisting that your God preprogrammed the first cells with every single innovation, or even with a collection of right and wrong pathways from which each bacterium could make its choice.

Alternative pathways, not right or wrong, but at times inadequate for the stress encountered