Natures wonders: fungal symbiosis by gene loss (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, September 30, 2018, 15:18 (2244 days ago) @ dhw

QUOTE: But for fungi that associate with plants and must avoid harming their partners, cellulose-digesting enzymes are only a liability. (David’s bold)

DAVID: Note my bold. This symbiosis could only happen if genes were lost, because they had to be absent. Looks like design to me; not by chance.

dhw: I get it: your God preprogrammed the evolution of Amanita inopinata 3.8 billion years ago, or he personally dabbled its mode of symbiosis, because without it life could not have continued until he was able to achieve his prime purpose of producing the brain of Homo sapiens. (Secondary purposes: to prove himself to us, or to provide a sort of spectacle, but not a dhw sort of spectacle.) And while we’re at it, he also preprogrammed salmonella to “break key molecules in immune signaling pathways”, or popped in to give them a tutorial.

Thanks all the same for the ongoing education.

Thank you for your attention to the educational articles I present, all of which easily show the designs in life that require a thoughtful designer to produce them. Even Dawkins admitted the design, as he denigrated the designer.