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

by David Turell , Friday, March 12, 2021, 18:20 (1140 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Your only weak response is God let the neurons do it. It doesn't answer the question of why such a large jump in size while lifestyle requirements changes were minimal as you admit.

dhw: According to you, your God lets the neurons complexify, so why not also let them multiply? Why is that weak? ... You keep ignoring my example: a hunter with a new weapon will still be a hunter.

Inventing a spear is a tiny use of the sapiens brain as evidenced by today. The neurons have a God-given program to follow to complexify networks

DAVID: You have asked me the question I've posed to you. My answer is in logical anticipation of future use.

dhw: Why have you inserted the word “logical”? What is logical about your God creating a large brain that is not going to be used for 300,000 years? My logical answer: the brain enlarged IN RESPONSE to a new requirement, and then remained the same until there was another new requirement which also needed greater capacity.

All you point out is tiny requirements the obviously don't require the neew size. And you are wrong, the brain neve enlarged again after 300,000 years

David’s theory of evolution

DAVID: Your same chopping up of evolution into segments. All branches evolved from bacteria. That is the original connection.

dhw: There is no chopping. All branches evolved from bacteria, but branches branched out into more and more branches, and humans are not directly descended from 99% of those branches. That is what makes nonsense of your claim that ALL life forms were “part of the goal of evolving [=designing] humans”. Or will you now tell us how, for instance, the lizard/dinosaur branch formed part of the goal of designing humans?

The huge bush supplies food for all, eve nteh l izzard branch.

SURVIVAL

DAVID: I start up only because you constantly reference your illogical objections.

dhw; My objections are to the logic of your theories: 1) that your God had only one goal (humans) but designed millions of extinct life forms as part of his goal, although 99% of them had no connection with humans. This is illogical. 2) Organs which are designed to improve an organism’s chances of survival are evidence that the quest for survival plays no part in evolution. This is illogical.

My obvious previous point: God designs to guarantee survival. God drives evolution, not nature

Playing possum

DAVID: Back to the weaverbird nests. Even boy scouts would have trouble with some of the complex knots.

dhw: So 3.8 billion years ago, your God preprogrammed the arrival of possums and their play-dead strategy, and he preprogrammed weaverbirds and their ability to tie complicated knots? Or did he pop in to give courses to possums and weaverbirds, all as part of his goal to design humans? Any alternatives?

God designs to guarantee survival. God drives evolution, not nature, as above