Return to David's theory of evolution PART 2 (Evolution)

by David Turell , Sunday, April 10, 2022, 16:53 (956 days ago) @ dhw

You have blithely skipped over your self-contradictions, so I will highlight them:

DAVID (March 19): The gap is phenotypical not biochemical which is continuous[/b]!

The above is the key to my thinking

dhw: So three weeks ago, we had biochemical continuity and every step built on past steps, and now we have biochemical discontinuity and no steady pattern of step by step. But no matter which it is, apparently it all adds up to God designing it. In the article itself, I see no disagreement with Darwin’s revised prediction as quoted above.

There is no biochemical discontinuity. The phenotypical gaps are God's jumps as in the Cambrian.

DAVID: You can't have it both ways. There is continuity with gaps. The past always leads to the future. Darwinism obviously doesn't work. Only a designer can arrange gaps.

dhw: It is you who try to have it both ways! Continuity is the direct opposite of “with gaps”![..] The fact that the past always leads to the future does not explain any of the above blatant contradictions in your thinking, and you should be specific about what aspects of Darwinism don’t work. Neither of us accepts random mutations as the source of innovation, but we have both accepted the principle of common descent, except that you contradict yourself when you claim that the Cambrian animals from which we descended had no precursors.

DAVID: Still struggling to understand a designer can design gaps if he wishes. The entire point is the Cambrian is a God-designed jump ahead. The gap is part of the design. […] The Cambrian gap confounded Darwin. Gaps require design! Your confusion continues.

dhw: The designer can design whatever he wants, but you cannot claim at one moment that there is a direct line from bacteria to us if, at the same time, you claim that we are descended from animals that had no precursor. Your previous argument was that there was biochemical continuity, but you have now said there was no such thing. If we are descended from animals with no precursors, your belief that every preceding life form and econiche was “preparation for humans” plus our food, clearly makes even less sense than it did before, when you insisted on continuity from bacteria to us but kept leaving out all the other life forms and foods that did not lead to us and our foods.

Your blindness to God as designer makes you confused about what I am presenting. Basic biochemical processes stated in Archaea and carry through to the present in a much more complicated way. God designs the jumps in phenotypical form creating the gaps, Cambrian and the ones Gould described. Common descent in biochemistry of life but gaps in body designs. The direct line to us is underlying biochemistry of life, with phenotypical gaps in lines and branches that can be followed from Archaea to our branch.