Evolution: development of flying not understood (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, October 27, 2018, 09:26 (2219 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: It should be noted that flying is not a problem unless for some reason it is attempted. The issue is: why attempt it when most animals find enough to eat on land or ocean?

dhw: So what is your answer? Your God preprogrammed/dabbled flight because without it he could not have fulfilled his prime purpose, which was to produce the brain of Homo sapiens? Or could it be that all these organisms found that flight improved their chances of survival?

DAVID: You keep returning to Darwin and the competition for survival, which is an unproven theory. Balance of nature is a more likely cause.

You seem to think that the word “Darwin” automatically disqualifies an argument! Do you not think that an innovation which improves the chances of survival is likely to catch on? What proof do you have for your own theory that your God preprogrammed flight 3.8 billion years ago, or popped in to teach birds, bats and insects to fly? Balance of nature, as you now acknowledge, means nothing more than the fact that if organisms and econiches are not “balanced”, they die. How does that explain the invention of flight?