Balance of nature: importance of algae in ecosystems (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, December 01, 2020, 14:13 (1243 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Food supply lies with the simplest forms (algae) in the beginning of providing nutrition. Pyrenoids are not simply formed and highly suggest an original design. Evolution as designed from the simplest to the most complex follows a very logical progression in which the simplest supports the existence of the complex. dhw constantly tries to dismiss this continuum as not important an incidental consideration in viewing evolution.

dhw: How many more times must we go over this? It is blindingly obvious that all organisms need food. Most organisms also need air and water. That is a continuum. And all organisms are part of an econiche, and if the balance of Nature is disturbed, then there will be changed ecosystems. It is also blindingly obvious that if life began with bacteria, evolution has developed from the simple to the complex. I have never disputed this, and you know it. What I dispute is your attempt to link these blindingly obvious facts to your anthropocentric theory of evolution, so here is a reminder: evolution branched out into millions of now extinct life forms, econiches etc., 99% of which had no direct connection with humans. There was no continuum from brontosaurus to sapiens, or from his food supply to ours. In your own words: “The current huge bush is NOW for humans NOW. There were smaller bushes in the PAST for PAST forms.” So please stop trying to use the obvious continuum of the importance of food for all life forms (which is beyond dispute) as a logical cover for your illogical theory that all the extinct life forms and food supplies were “part of the goal of evolving humans”.

DAVID: Did humans evolve , or not? Is God in charge, or not? End of logic. No more needed.

Yes, humans evolved, as did every other life form from single cells onward. Yes, if God exists, he is "in charge" in the sense that he decides what he wants and sets up the mechanisms to achieve it. That does not mean he directly designed every life form and econiche, or that all the extinct life forms and econiches that had no direct connection with humans were “part of the goal of evolving humans”, or that dhw doesn’t realize that all forms of life need food.