Junk DNA goodbye!: non-coding lncRNA & regeneration (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, August 26, 2018, 15:44 (2282 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I do not believe they did it all at once. I am suggesting that lots and lots of round eggs fell off the cliff, and only pointy ones survived, and so in the end there were only pointy ones. Meanwhile, why don’t you answer my question? Do you believe your God preprogrammed pointy eggs 3.8 billion years ago, or personally dabbled them when he saw so many falling off the cliff?

DAVID: Again, your fealty to Darwin's hunt and peck chance approach. The pointed eggs require a specific type of cloacal shape, which must be created by a changed DNA. Either the cloaca makes round or pointed, not the possibility of both types. I'm sure God helped in design of the proper shaped egg for cliff-side dwelling with no nest to control the eggs.

dhw: I must confess that I’m not sure about most of the things we discuss, and I really have no idea of the history of pointy eggs. It is clear that the species would not have survived without them. And so we go back to your theory that your God preprogrammed or dabbled (= "helped") every innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder in order to balance nature so that life would continue until he could produce the brain of Homo sapiens. But I’ll be a real devil here, and suggest to you that even if the murre had gone extinct, our brain would still have evolved. And so, as with the turtle, I wonder why your God bothered with murres and pointy eggs. Alternatively, he may have designed a mechanism that would enable organisms to work out their own ways to cope with the environment. In which case, congratulations to the cell communities of the murre for pointy-shaping their cloacae and not having to join the other 90%+ of organisms that couldn’t cope.

I know you live your life with purpose and certainty. But in this area of 'theory of the immaterial' you are hoist onto your personal picket fence with both feet planted firmly in mid air.