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

by dhw, Friday, June 17, 2022, 13:16 (678 days ago) @ David Turell

Magic embryology

QUOTE: The migrating cell has to constantly be making decisions and figuring out if it is in the in the right place in the body.

dhw: Don’t you just love these signs of intelligence?

DAVID: The article shows tight signal controls, but I guess you ignored the descriptions, since they upset your rigid concept about how intelligent cells are, without being able to tell me how they got that way naturally. Try not scurrying back to a probable God to avoid the other side of the issue. If you are either or about God, give me the no God explanation.

Dealt with on the “Information” thread.

Human membrane pore

dhw: If one part doesn’t work, the mechanism won’t work. Fits in perfectly with the concept of intelligent cells cooperating to create a mechanism that works. However, see above for mechanisms that do work but can be improved.

DAVID: So simple cell committees understand design for future use?

Why do you keep repeating this nonsense and making me repeat: CELLS DO NOT UNDERSTAND DESIGN FOR FUTURE USE! They respond to present requirements or opportunities. Once the response works, then of course it will be used in the future. The immune system provides a perfect example of the process!

Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: 410,000 years

dhw: […] please tell me why you think the 2019 arguments explaining the gaps in the fossil record are no longer valid in 2022.

DAVID: I know all the arguments about gaps. All are theoretical guesses. Gould recognized the issue as so punctuated equilibrium was proposed, defended and opposed, nothing solved.

dhw: Of course they are all theoretical guesses. Does it not occur to you that the existence of God and his 3.8-billion-year programme or individual dabbles for all evolutionary changes are also “theoretical guesses”? Now please tell me why the 410,000-year transition invalidates all the “theoretical guesses” that explain the absence of fossils.

DAVID: See Egnor's previous comments which you well know. If after decades of searching for more, and do not appear, there are no more.

Yet again: there are logical reasons why there may be no more fossils! But for some obscure reason, you think that a list of reasons published in 2019 is out of date!

dhw: We don’t know any of the “origins”, including that of life itself. However, you suggested that sex may have originated before the Cambrian. And we've been told that fundamental elements of the brain and nervous system existed much earlier than the Cambrian. This suggests the continuity of evolution (which you favour for the sake of a continuous line between bacteria and humans), as opposed to separate creation without precursors (which you favour as evidence for your God’s existence).

No direct response from you.

How did sex pop up?

DAVID: It required chromatin to appear so sex chromosomes could exist:

QUOTE: “'Our results underscore that the structural and regulatory roles of chromatin are as old as eukaryotes themselves,” Dr. Grau-Bové said.

DAVID: as Darwinist scientists they have their guesses as to how chromatin appeared. It could be a virus attack or a designing God. At any rate we came from Archaea. And to have sexual reproduction major modifications in DNA structure had to happen. Sex allowed for multiple possible complex new variations to appear, while simple binary fission couldn't do that. Design or chance, I chose design.

Since chromatin is so vital for sex, we have yet another example of fundamental elements being present long before the arrival of the fully developed system. More evidence in favour of the continuity of common descent as opposed to organs and species suddenly appearing without any predecessors.