Natures wonders: Subsea Microorganisms Long Life (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, August 24, 2018, 22:56 (2281 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Why is that a problem? If local conditions change, one would expect organisms in that locality to change as well. I would not expect pre-whale Willy to dive into the water and live while pre-whale Wendy lay on the shore and died. Would you?

That assumes more than one entered the water.and mated when modifications happened. But there are no modifications in small amounts, only giant changes each stage!

TONY: Genetic programming similarity is shared across species separated by geography, time, and vast species boundaries (Like human's and banana's). Please explain how you get that degree of similarity via common descent in a human, cat, chicken, fruit fly, and banana. There is no evolutionary path that will get you there.

The path I suggest is that life began with single-celled organisms, which linked up to form the first multicellular organisms about 600 million years ago. Using their possibly God-given intelligence, they multiplied, spread worldwide, and diversified as they adapted to or exploited all kinds of environments. 600 million years of intelligent cooperation between cell communities explains the evolutionary path to speciation. David asks if there was enough time. Discount random mutations, substitute intelligence, and Haldane’s dilemma disappears. Substitute God’s programming/dabbling, and again it disappears, but common descent doesn’t.

dhw: I keep repeating that in my proposal evolution progresses through responses to environmental changes as opposed to divine dabbling or preprogramming in advance of environmental changes Your proposal also raises the never answered question of the extent to which your God controls the environment.

DAVID: You have, as usual, skipped over Tony's point and mine about the need for foresight and planning.

Not skipped. Please reread the above.

DAVID: As for climate, we have a definite example of how God might have changed environmental conditions and alter evolution in Chixculub.

dhw: A definite example of “might have”. Your theory has innovations planned beforehand, which means your God foresaw every related environmental change, local and global. So did he have a crystal ball, or did he manipulate every change?

You keep asking God questions with no known answer. I gave you a possible example. Since He has purpose in His complex designs, He also has the foresight to make good designs, which only a planning brain can do..