Genome complexity: variation within species (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, December 17, 2016, 13:26 (2899 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: I have always allowed for the possibility that God supplied the toolkit from the beginning. But what is central to my overall evolutionary hypothesis is that they do “use” it. They are not preprogrammed, and some are better than others at using it(= variability). And that is where “intelligence” comes in.

And I’d have thought that the initially resistant ones were the individuals which were best able to use the ‘toolkit’ your God may have provided them with at the beginning: namely, the intelligence with which to work out their own methods of survival.

DAVID: What you call intelligence is the presence of alternative metabolic pathways. If one is not working the organism, the next is switched on, nothing more.

What switches it on, and why is it switched on in some but not in others if your God made the mechanism automatic?