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

by David Turell , Friday, April 02, 2021, 16:55 (1119 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: ...please tell us why you find my theory illogical.

DAVID: Oversized brain allowed for more refined complexification as brain was newly used by us. My God knows exactly what He is doing while your imagined God wanders in a mental fog.

dhw: So a God who endows cells with the autonomous ability not only to complexify (you grant the autonomy) but also to produce additional cells when required is wandering in a mental fog. Whereas a God who produces extra cells which are necessary to improve complexification but which aren’t necessary (shrinkage), knows exactly what he is doing. And, to remind ourselves of your basic theory, the addition of cells for some vague future purpose seems more likely to you than the addition of cells to meet requirements that can’t be met by the existing number of cells.

The bold makes no sense. The enormous addition is not explained by the minimal new requirements as Erectus advanced to Sapiens, for the full evidence, which you ignore, is sapiens first lifestyle hardly differed from Erectus. You really can't explain the giant addition of cells in the frontal and prefrontal areas, which, we know, are later used for complex ideation.

Survival
DAVID: His reason for His designs is for increased complexity.

dhw: Do you think complexity is a purpose in itself? If not, please tell us the purpose.

DAVID: To finally reach the complexity of the human brain.

dhw: So your God had to design the brontosaurus because otherwise he could not have designed the complex human brain. Your reasoning?

Evolution had to complexify from the bronto's pea-sized brain to ours. Remember God chose to evolve one step at a time.

DAVID: We have a different nuance of meaning about 'survival'. God's designs guarantee survival, while in your mind finding adaption for survival drives advances in evolution. Polar opposites. Turn about: with survival so important why are 99% dead?

dhw: I asked what you meant by guaranteeing survival. No explanation. Your question is far more relevant to your own theory: if survival is guaranteed, why are 99% dead? I suggest that survival is NEVER guaranteed. All organisms, however, TRY to survive, and that is why they adapt and innovate, using mechanisms possibly designed by your God.

You've backed away from my real point: survival adaptations don't drive evolutionary advances.

DAVID: Returning vision with an RNA injection in the eye:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210401112532.htm

QUOTE: A Penn Medicine patient with a genetic form of childhood blindness gained vision, which lasted more than a year, after receiving a single injection of an experimental RNA therapy into the eye.

DAVID: Here is proof of my thought that our God-given brains can correct biochemical genomic errors beyond God's control systems. Perhaps that was His reason for The enormous ability of our brains, far beyond survival needs, an observation you can't answer meaningfully.

dhw: I would regard the battle against diseases and genetic defects – or what you like to call errors beyond the control of your all-powerful, in-total-control God – as part of the battle for survival, but I have never suggested that our enormous abilities were confined to survival! Our specialness, however, does not prove that your God had to design the brontosaurus etc. before he could design us.

Same answer: "Evolution had to complexify from the bronto's pea-sized brain to ours. Remember God chose to evolve one step at a time."