Innovation and Speciation:baleen whale feeding (Evolution)

by David Turell , Sunday, June 18, 2017, 22:50 (2713 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Yes, I do look for alternative explanations which will cover the enormous gaps in your own. And you keep admitting that my alternatives fit in with the history of life as we know it, but you prefer to cling to an explanation which doesn’t make sense to you.

Just because I question the motive for whales doesn't prevent me from believing God is in change and knows what He is doing, even if I can't follow all of His reasons. You obviously do not understand faith in a believing person.

DAVID: (under “bacterial intelligence”): You want internal drives for evolutionary change. I prefer God as an external drive.

dhw: I covered this in yesterday’s post under “big brain”:
The external drive would be your dabbling. What happened to preprogramming, which is an internal “drive” implanted by your God? Unless you think he personally reaches down and presses each individual switch in each individual organism for each individual change. An internal inventive intelligence (possibly designed by your God) is my equivalent of the internal preprogramming drive, but it is autonomous and not automated. It responds adaptively or creatively to current conditions, but does not look into a crystal ball.

You can't have complex saltations without a crystal ball or a planning mind. The gaps Are too large for chance to accomplish. You have to use my God in your discussion above or fall back on panpsychism which is a wooly hypothesis at best. The point is you have no answers at all as to how evolution works. My God runs the show.