Convoluted human evolution: a branch is missing (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 15, 2017, 19:21 (2657 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: As I said before, maybe the first pre-whales (and humans too) were forced to change habitat, or thought it would be advantageous to do so. The sole purpose you see in the whales changing habitat is to produce the human brain, but even you can’t find any connection. Except that the reason why you think your God preprogrammed or dabbled the whale and the monarch’s migration and the weaverbird’s nest was to keep life going, which has nothing to do with his sole purpose of producing the human brain. As for “unchanged”, bacteria have also remained unchanged, but you and I believe that every species alive today is descended from ancestors that did change. I suggest they all said to themselves: “I wanner survive” or “I wanner improve my chances of survival”, but if you think they said to themselves: “I wanner be more complex,” that’s fine. Though of course you don’t think they said anything. You think God said to each and every one of them: “I wanner make you more complex, so that I can produce the human brain.”

In the other thread today I've made the point that bacteria have easily survived. Survival is a Darwinian concept of struggle, fitness and natural selection, which does not necessarily apply.