Innovation, Speciation: strange DNA finding (Evolution)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, November 26, 2018, 01:03 (1979 days ago) @ David Turell

"And yet—another unexpected finding from the study—species have very clear genetic boundaries, and there's nothing much in between.

"'If individuals are stars, then species are galaxies," said Thaler. "They are compact clusters in the vastness of empty sequence space.'" (my bold)

"The absence of "in-between" species is something that also perplexed Darwin, he said."

Comment: The 'inbetween' is the gaps we see in the fossil record. This might explain, in a way, how the gaps occur, but not the underlying cause. God in action? These findings offer no support for 'natural' chance evolution, with no 'inbetween' found.

Or is it possible that there were epochs, periods, one might even say 'days', of creative activity, followed by a period of settling as the environmental changes they were created to implement came about. Could it be possible that animals were created 'according to their kinds', with all that 'in-between' space explicitly defining their genetic possibility space programmatically exactly as I have hypothesized? And, if so, what's wrong with that?

The last question is this. On what grounds do we claim to know more than our ancestors, those wonderful minds that formulated the ancient writings that have endured for thousands of years? What do we think we have, and know, that they didn't, and by what objective measure do we make that claim?

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.