Genome complexity: variation within species (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 13, 2016, 19:40 (2684 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Because what I have described is the accepted explanation for resistance.

dhw: What part of your theory is “accepted”?

That bacteria come with alternative pathways built-in that can be employed when necessary. And that individual variation allows for some individuals to be more immune or resistant to noxious changes that they survive, reproduce and create a group that is more prepared to handle the challenges and changes.

dhW: That your God provided alternative pathways for the first cells to pass on to bacteria, so that in a million different situations some of them would be able to resist the new threat to their existence by switching onto the correct pathway without knowing what they were doing?

The pathways exist. God or not.

dhw: What is accepted is that bacteria find answers to countless problems. Scientists can analyse the answers, which of course are physical since the problems are also physical. What they cannot analyse is how the bacteria come up with those answers. You propose that your God preprogrammed them to do so automatically. I propose that they have the intelligence (perhaps God-given) to work out each new programme. You have said yourself that nobody can tell the difference from outside, and nobody can get inside. 50/50.

We remain apart.