Evolution: more genomic evidence of pre-planning (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 06, 2021, 15:30 (1356 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: But this not ever explain, why vast overcapacity is created. You always ignore that point.

dhw: You always ignore my answers to that point, but what overcapacity are you talking about? Now please tell us what vast overcapacity you are referring to, and why you think your God created it.

You apparently cannot recognize over-capacity when it exists in as newly arrived form of a brain. Your stasis discussion is entirely off point and simply descriptive of what happens next after the huge new form of brain arrives on the scene. It is as if yo0u bought a new small car with a 600 hp engine. For what purpose?>

David's theory of evolution

DAVID: No dodge. God designed every advancing level of evolutions complexities, eventually humans.

dhw: Still dodging! For the thousandth time: Why would your God have directly designed the brontosaurus, and the millions of other life forms that had no connection with humans, if his only purpose was to design H. sapiens?

DAVID: Same weird twist. God chose to design/evolve all living forms with humans as His final goal.

dhw: Same deliberate dodge. How does your statement come to mean that every living form in life’s history was “part of the goal of evolving [= designing] humans” when 99% of forms had no connection with humans? (See also “theodicy”).

Same weird chopping up of evolution into unrelated segments. Evolution proceeds from bacteria to humans without stopping. Under common descent we are direct results from bacteria.

Symbiosis by bacteria

DAVID: Life simply goes from one generation to the next, survival of forms guaranteed by God's designs.

dhw: 99% of forms have not survived. And common descent indicates that life doesn’t simply go from one generation to the next, but it also branches out into new forms. Why? Because organisms look for new ways of surviving. Once more, please tell us why pre-whales’ legs became flippers, if it was not to enable them to improve their chances of survival in a new environment.

Of course God had to give them flippers if they were to enter a watery environment.

Playing possum

QUOTE: “Playing dead seems to be a very good way to stay alive.'"

DAVID: How is this learned, since it implies conceptual thinking? How is the length of time that one plays possum determined? Perhaps God designed this mechanism. […]

dhw: […] The intelligence of possums IS my answer. And maybe your God designed the intelligence of possums and every other creature that uses strategies, lifestyles or physical adaptations in order to SURVIVE.

DAVID: You have possums conceptualizing necessary time intervals. How very sentient of them! I'll stick with God's help.

dhw: I don’t know about “conceptualizing necessary time intervals”. I don’t think it requires super intelligence for an animal to perceive when the coast is clear. And YES in block capitals, I do believe that our fellow creatures are sentient. What makes you think they are not?

Sentient, yes, conceptualizing, no.