Life's biologic complexity: Automatic molecular actions (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 10, 2016, 22:36 (2905 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Because survival, competition and complexity are all related concepts and intertwined. Generally more complex organisms should have more survivability.

dhw: Why? The more complex organisms are, the more things can go wrong. The great survivors are the simplest organisms.

You are right. I was considering organisms beyond the bacterial level.

dhw: If an organism can survive in a different environment, that is an improvement over not surviving. Only a drive to survival and/or improvement makes sense.

We are discussing whales. Entering a hostile aquatic environment with the requirement of a complex physiological new phenotype to me is an exercise in futility and makes no sense. Yes the animals do survive and are improved in the sense they achieve the ability to survive in water. But they are certainly lots more complex.

dhw: We have agreed several times that Nature is “balanced” so long as life goes on, with or without humans. The expression provides no explanation whatsoever for your anthropocentric view of evolution.

It explains how everyone ate until humans arrived.

dhw: The complexity of life’s genome layers lends itself perfectly well to the concept of cellular intelligence. And you still haven’t told us the “known research findings” that support your divine preprogramming/dabbling hypothesis.

That cellular intelligence is supplied by God at the origin of life. Planning by an intelligent mind is required by the layers of genome complexity you refer to, which are discoveries by science, of which you are fully aware. All of that leads to my theory of programming. Dabbling is a supposition of mine related to probable course correction in the process of evolution which might drift off course. God uses to evolution as a process to produce humans.