Genome complexity: epigenetics in action (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, April 07, 2017, 18:47 (2786 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: A very simple organism inventing these highly complex weapons simply isn't going to happen. I stick with my comment. If these organisms need weapons of this magnitude for survival, it has to be a saltation.

dhw: A saltation simply means a jump – i.e. the invention arrived rapidly and not gradually. If organisms are capable of rapid adaptations, perhaps they are also capable of rapid innovations. Your comment, taken in conjunction with your other dogmas, means that your God either preprogrammed these different weapons 3.8 billion years ago or directly dabbled them in order to provide the energy to keep life going until he was able to achieve his only goal: to produce humans, which he could do without difficulty. And this makes sense to you?

Your proposal that organisms can jump with rapid adaptations is possible, but this can be through God's actions just as well. As for producing humans in 3.8 billion years, brings us to considering limits vs. God's choice of timing, nothing more. I believe He choose that length of time rather than He is limited. Perfect sense to me.