Biological complexity:how toxoplasmosis parastizes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, November 25, 2016, 15:44 (2698 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: It really is amazing how all these different organisms find all these different ways of surviving. How each way originates we don’t know, but each one must have had a first. No disagreement from me over saltation, but what are you implying? Do you think your God preprogrammed the first cells to pass on this particular lifestyle to the toxoplasma gondii, or personally intervened to guide little toxy into its first cat? If not, what is your alternative?

Another alternative: God programmed kitties to present the proper immunity info to the toxies and invited them in for beneficial reasons not apparent to us now. The why cats only (?) is itself a mystery. Pregnancy and immune deficiency are the only bad side effects for humans. So far this defies theological theories.