Revisiting convergence: ant-ibiotics (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, February 07, 2018, 13:56 (2260 days ago) @ David Turell

As this has nothing to do with scallop eyes, I hope you won’t mind my giving it a new title.

DAVID’s comment: Evolution uses the same solutions over and over, which supports my contention that there are basic patterns that are present from the beginning, making the process of evolution easier to accomplish. Put in place by God.

Basic patterns are indeed the bedrock of common descent. I would argue that these medical treatments are evidence of the extraordinary intelligence of ants. This is not altogether dissimilar from that of bacteria, which are able to work out solutions to almost every problem that nature and humans can throw at them. Of course this extraordinary intelligence may originally have been “put in place by God”, allowing organisms to work out the solutions for themselves. That would certainly “make the process of evolution easier to accomplish”, rather than your God having to preprogramme or dabble all the problems and their solutions.