Innovation, Speciation: strange DNA finding (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, October 18, 2019, 17:11 (1861 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: These closely related insects set up their embryological orientation in different genetic ways.

DAVID: Also note my bold in the digest. A guide to how God dabbles to create a new form of human brain. Phenotype may look like descent with modification, but the secrets of modification lie in the genome alterations, which appear to be unrelated, not modified.

dhw: According to you, your God either preprogrammed or directly dabbled every modification in every life form throughout evolution, even though all he wanted was to design H. sapiens. Maybe your God gave cells/cell communities the inventive intelligence that enabled them to make their own modifications and innovations according to conditions in which different groups found themselves. I’m afraid this will always be my response when you get your God dabbling.

DAVID: Each of our views are quite clear. But you have to use my God to help the cell committees. Are you sure He did that. No.

dhw: I don’t know what you mean. My proposal is that the cell communities act autonomously, and if God exists, then he designed them to do just that. I am not sure of anything, but I must confess I find this possibility more convincing than your own divine preprogramming/dabbling proposal in which you have a fixed belief.

And if God did not give cell communities the information to act autonomously, where did they get the information to do the new designs? Thin air?