More "miscellany" (General)

by David Turell @, Wednesday, March 02, 2022, 19:11 (758 days ago) @ dhw

Biggest bacterium ever discovered

dhw: If it’s possible that he tried "different approaches" early on in his creative earthly career, why do you think he could not possibly have tried "different approaches" later on? These would logically explain the different life forms that turned out to have no connection with what you believe to have been his one and only goal. But no, you even reject a theory which would explain the parts of your own theory that you can't explain, although you have just agreed that its basic premise is possible! :-(

DAVID: Rethink the bold. Total humanizing as usual. God created the universe, invented life, but struggled in 'His creative early earthly career'! We are arguing over a possible minor dabble

dhw: Mostly dealt with on the thread that deals with your theory. We are not arguing over a possible minor dabble, but over a clear statement which could be applied to all phases of evolution: If your God was prepared to try different approaches early on, why could he not have done so later on as well? Why do you use the word “struggle”? You constantly use these negative terms, as if it belittles your God that he should try new things, enjoy the whole process of learning by doing so, taking pleasure in the fascinating results of his work as he advances it from the simple to the complex. And that would explain all the different life forms which make nonsense of your own theory of evolution.

God does not need to entertain Himself, as in your humanizing now bolded statement. He knows His goals exactly and creates with complete purpose.


Evolution: land plant evolution from horizontal transfer

QUOTES: "Genes jumping from microbes to green algae hundreds of millions of years ago might have driven the evolution of land plants, researchers report March 1 in the journal Molecular Plant. Their analysis reveals that hundreds of genes from bacteria, fungi, and viruses have been integrated into plants, giving them desirable traits for a terrestrial life.
"Our finding suggests that HGT plays a significant role in land-plant evolution. Compared with mutations from vertical gene transfer, HGT enables plants to gain new traits rapidly, and some of these new traits could help plants adapt to a drastically different environment, like when they moved from water to land," Huang says.

dhw: Thank you for this. It’s all fascinating stuff, and may help us to understand how animal life also gained new traits rapidly and adapted to drastically different environments. After all, we have three times as many bacteria in us as we have cells.

You are welcome. I view it as God using DNA as he needs to.


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