Genome complexity: we survive constant mutations (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, May 13, 2018, 15:10 (2167 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID’s comment: the mutations are there but so are the safety nets. Logically when DNA appeared the safety nets had to be there also, or life would not have continued. Only a designed system fits the facts. One can argue that a perfect designer would have made a perfect system that never mutated, but the way evolution advances is by having groups of cooperative genes creating new forms, which again would require a designer, and makes chance extremely unlikely.

dhw: Thank you for yet another amazing article on how cells work. And thank you also for your illuminating comment. If God exists, I would agree with you that he created a system whereby groups of cooperative cells (cell communities) created new forms, thus producing the whole higgledy-piggledy history of evolution. And I would also agree with you that he did not WANT a system that never mutated, because he WANTED the vast variety of forms that his invention has produced. It seems that our ideas about God and evolution are converging.

DAVID: Thank you. We have never been far apart. My only point has been that if God bothered to create life He would have carefully monitored its progression, and I've agreed He might have given organisms an IM with guidelines or He dabbled.

dhw: There are still a few differences between us, but now that you have agreed that groups of cooperative cells (cell communities) created new forms, the gap has certainly narrowed. I would substitute “watched” for “carefully monitored”, and would suggest that if your God exists, he gave organisms an inventive mechanism without guidelines, though always with the proviso that he could dabble when he felt like it. I am delighted to see that in your theistic version of evolution you appear to have dropped the alternative that he equipped the first cells with computer programmes to be passed on for the millions of innovations, lifestyles and natural wonders that he did not dabble, and perhaps we may even agree that humans are special, but that the creation of new forms by the cooperating cell communities was not necessarily geared to the production of the sapiens brain. Or is that asking too much?

God has purpose. He desired humans, as I view us a step beyond the rest of evolution. See the video I entered today. We live in the mind of God