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

by David Turell , Monday, October 24, 2016, 15:33 (2733 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: We have agreed a hundred times that we do not accept chance or Darwin’s gradualism, and we do accept saltation, which means a leap but does not necessarily preclude chance. However, my focus was on your excellent observation that bacteria had to INVENT the huge molecules – a hypothesis which seems more likely to me than your God intervening or preprogramming the huge molecules, along with everything else bacteria come up with.

You are having bacteria work out the giant jigsaw puzzle of putting together huge organic molecules using thousands of amino acids, with the correct sequences, proper folds required for function, key-lock positions in the right spots, the necessary traces of metals of different kinds, when all the pieces are not given in a box, and even the pieces have to be made! I do not think you have any concept of the biochemistry of enzymes, the engines that make life run in the instant. Every different bio molecular reaction requires a distinct enzyme. My inference is that bacteria cannot invent at this level of complexity.