Revisiting convergence: making teeth, shells, claws, nails (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, August 23, 2019, 07:31 (1705 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Thank you for the other articles you have posted. As usual, I agree that chance is a very unsatisfactory explanation for the origin of such complex mechanisms. And as usual, you offer a snipe at Darwin. What a pity he never thought of the intelligent cell as a more likely source of innovation than random mutations, but 160 years ago they simply didn’t know about all the complexities of the cell, did they? However, he did forecast the opening of “a grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry…”!

DAVID: My snipe is at the current Darwinists who try to support his theories.

You actually wrote: “Not by Darwin”, but thank you for this correction. It is a constant source of irritation that both atheists and theists try to distort (not support) the theories of the agnostic Darwin!