More "miscellany" (General)

by dhw, Friday, February 18, 2022, 11:58 (770 days ago) @ David Turell

How did sex pop up?

DAVID: the ability to fuse cells had to start in Archaea, since they are our ancestors. Doesn't help us understand how sexual activity was created. answer is simple if one accepts that God created evolution by His design. Anticipating necessary new processes is a logical way to design evolution. Another example of anticipating the future.

dhw: Why “necessary”. Necessary for what?

DAVID: As I've insisted, design for future use, anticipated and unanticipated.

You have not answered my question. Why do you think your God found it “necessary” to design sex?

Sudden change from a gene loss

QUOTE: "'This finding shows that evolution can occur in a big jump if the right kind of gene is involved," Hodges said. APETALA3-3 tells the developing organ to become a petal. "When it's broken, those instructions aren't there anymore, and that causes it to develop into a completely different organ, a sepal," he explained."

DAVID: This is devolution, not real evolution and demonstrates Darwinist faith bias.

dhw: You must be joking. If anything, this supports Darwin’s theory of random mutations leading to speciation! But do you really think the Colorado blue columbine nullifies your whole argument that evolution progresses from the simple to the increasingly complex? I can only repeat the conclusion I drew when we discussed Behe’s theory (which did NOT extend to speciation): speciation takes place through the addition of new genes, and existing genes performing new functions, and this may result in the loss of genes that are no longer required.

DAVID: All I showed was obvious devolution. In the progression from Archaea to humans devolution happened!

Sorry, but I still don’t understand how this “demonstrates Darwinist faith bias”.

Milky Way

DAVID: dhw is going to wonder in his usual way, why did God do so much with this galaxy when all He wanted was humans. The answer is humans need lots of protection from dangerous area in this galaxy as in its center. The Earth is two-thirds of the way out in the second spiral, far from the dangerous activity. God has His reasons, and this one is obvious.

I thought you’d now agreed with me that humans were NOT “all He wanted”. (See the thread on your theory of evolution.) You don’t need to defend that theory now that you’ve disowned it.

Thank you for the other posts. I marvel at your ability to keep up with all these different developments in so many subjects!


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