Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 20:07 (2867 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Brain power is a consequence of neuron count and network complexity. Based on their ganglion size, the dinosaurs were dumb. They had one in the head and one back at the base of the tail. Most other survivors of Chicxulub are not as complex as mammals.

dhw: but you always leave out the fact that evolution so far has also “advanced” to the mosquito, the duckbilled platypus, the parasitic wasp and barnacle, the camouflaged cuttlefish, the migratory monarch etc. etc., all deliberately planned or dabbled by your God. All more complex (and more intelligent) than the dinosaurs?

It is my belief, based in part on milk production, live birth and brain power, that mammals are much more complex than the animals you have listed.
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DAVID: We haven't found the inventive mechanism beyond epigenetic modifications of existing species. I work with what we know from scientific research. I cannot accept your supposition until a methodology for speciation is found. As far as I am concerned God invented and is in control of evolution. He invented the DNA code and it is His to fiddle with.

dhw: My hypothesis allows for your God to have invented evolution and to have invented the DNA code and to fiddle with it.

A statement I can completely accept.