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

by David Turell , Monday, June 20, 2022, 16:30 (676 days ago) @ dhw

Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: 410,000 years

dhw: This may well be true, and if it is, I’ve offered you a list of reasons why there may be no more fossils, but you dismiss them all because the list was written in 2019!

DAVID: And three years later we find the Cambrain gap is 410,000 years in size based on existing fossil studies. What would the 2019 writers say now!

dhw: The 2019 writers offer a list of reasons why there may be no more fossils. Nothing to do with the length of the Cambrian gap. Stop dodging.

Stop dodging. Has everything to do with the Cambrian gap.

DAVID: Your theory: making silly fun and games of a needed designer God.

dhw: Once again: you have stated repeatedly that there are two ways in which your God might have designed every species...: preprogramming the first cells 3.8 billion years ago with every single one of these, or direct dabbling for every single one. I don’t know why you think your God’s possible design of intelligent entities that respond to changing conditions - by adapting and inventing - sounds sillier than that.

God designs for future use, your cell committees work in the present. How do gaps appear? Oh, I forgot, no fossils.

How did sex pop up?

DAVID: Thank you for clearly supporting my biochemcial theory of evolution. With that basis, new forms can appear. Chromatin came as new biochemistry.

dhw: Chromatin is “as old as eukaryotes themselves”. The point is that we have several examples of fundamental elements being present long before the fully developed organs appear.

DAVID: Exactly my point: necessary biochemicals appear before new forms.

dhw: So why did you say chromatin came as new biochemistry?

Chromatin is made up from new biochemistry in a new physical form

dhw: Then we are in agreement, and we can dismiss the idea that your God designed new species that had no precursors.

Your dismissal. Gaps in form bother you just as they bothered hero Darwin as unexplained in light of Darwin's itty-bitty step theory.

Mud

DAVID: what is key to understanding this evolved process on Earth, is that this is the way God works. Everything is evolved from a beginning: the universe from the Big Bang, the Earth from its beginining, and life from its beginning. dhw has never understood this pattern in God's works, and complains about how God evolved humans, instead of direct creation.

dhw?: Your usual dodge. Dhw is a firm believer in evolution. Dhw does not complain about humans evolving in stages. Dhw complains about a collection of theories which when combined are so illogical that their inventor cannot explain them and tells us that they “make sense only to God”.

If you learned how to believe in God, it would make sense to you like the rest of us believers.