Evolution: whales and hippos related? More relationships (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, March 29, 2018, 15:18 (2220 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID's comment: This study supports my contention that this is a strange and difficult way to evolve with all the new reasons shown.

dhw: This study supports my contention that organisms work out their own ways of coping with the environment, as opposed to being divinely preprogrammed or dabbled with in order to keep life going for the sake of the human brain.

DAVID: So you think land animals convert to aquatic environment with an easy change to their physiology. It is very difficult and requires many new designed systems.

dhw: I don’t remember saying it was easy. I find all of nature’s wonders wonderful. Not easy. I find human technology wonderful too, but a long, long way from being easy. It’s truly amazing what intelligent beings can come up with, and I do not believe intelligence is confined to humans. And if God exists, I do not believe it is beyond his powers to endow cell communities with the intelligence to engineer their own ways of coping with the environment.

DAVID: I agree with guidelines and help in design.

dhw: If you insist that organisms cannot cope with their environment unless they have guidelines and help, you refuse to consider the possibility that your God gave them the autonomous means to cope with their environment. There is no agreement. And among other titbits for you to savour is that your God guided and helped bad bacteria and viruses to do their dirty deeds.

You are following the religious line that God does only good things. That is certainly not true, as I discussed in my first book. Just understanding how dangerous a place is the universe gives evidence.