Evolution: common descent not shown by genetics (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 16:21 (2487 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Intelligent cells as your Darwinist scientists tell you have intelligent responses to stimuli, which cannot extrapolate to committees designing new forms. They never have suggested that. It is your supposition.

dhw: My hypothesis (not supposition) explains what yours does not, and so you ignore the logic of the explanation and revert to the same point I have agreed to again and again: we don’t know if cells are capable of innovation, and that is why it is a hypothesis. If nobody else has suggested it, good for me. That does not mean it’s wrong.

Which brings us back to the point of this entry. The genetic tree does not fit the apparent tree when animal forms are used as guidance to create such a tree or bush. Which means we are still missing a major 'something' in trying to explain the process of evolution. Gene enhancers in the chimp entry today offer a clue.

DAVID: God chose to evolve every form is my answer.

dhw: And why is that a more scientific answer than God chose to enable organisms to evolve their own forms?

dhw: There is no need for God to run the show if he deliberately started it off by giving organisms the wherewithal to simplify/complexify and run the show themselves, leaving him – in your own words – to watch with interest. Just another hypothesis, of course.
DAVID: Yes, just wishful thinking.

dhw: No wishes involved – just an honest attempt to find an explanation that will fit the history of life as we think we know it. Some folk might say that it’s “wishful thinking” for someone to believe that God evolved every form for the purpose of keeping life going so that he could produce the brain of David Turell, dhw et al.

All attempts are honest