More "miscellany" PART TWO (General)

by dhw, Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 08:48 (554 days ago) @ David Turell

PART TWO


DAVID: Bechly, a Ph.D. in archeology, says new important findings will be rare. Most current findings have filled out the story. The current jaws are a tremendous finding. Jaws had to appear at some point in the history of evolution.

dhw: All findings are rare. As I said, that’s why every find is regarded as a sensation. They are bound to be rare, since all the odds are stacked against preservation. And so we should be wary of drawing conclusions from what is bound to be an incomplete record. But you are right: every single organ and organism had to appear at some point in the history of evolution!

DAVID: Preservation is less of a problem under new techniques which have found Cambrian brains, as one example.

Wonderful. So maybe there will be even more new techniques in the next thousand years, and more fossils will be found, and Bechly will be proved wrong.

Shapiro

DAVID: fits Shapiro to a 'T'. DNA had to be edited to have this happen. This is a minor modification of a protein pathway, not speciation as dhw would hope for in his extrapolated theorizing.

dhw: Would you please stop misrepresenting me and Shapiro. I have done no “extrapolating theorizing”. It is Shapiro himself who proposes that cells are “cognitive entities”, and “evolutionary novelty arises from the production of new cell and multicellular structures as a result of cellular self-modification functions and cell fusions.”

DAVID: You have extrapolated with a theory that cell committees are so intelligent they can cause speciation.

Speciation comes about through “evolutionary novelty”. Please read Shapiro’s words above.

Less frogs, more mosquitos

DAVID: Every form in an ecosystem is related to every other form […]
DAVID: this shows now delicately balanced ecosystems are. Ecosystems are the result of the massive diversity of organisms created by the bush of life evolution developed.

Yes, there are interconnections between life forms within every ecosystem, and every ecosystem is/was delicately balanced, and every ecosystem is/was the result of diverse organisms that have evolved. Why are you telling us the obvious? Is this meant to convince us that your God individually designed every single life form in the history of evolution, and every single life form and every single ecosystem was specially designed for the single purpose of producing sapiens plus food, although the vast majority of them did NOT lead to sapiens plus food?

Tiny spider eats bigger ants

DAVID: instinct or learned? I'm with instinct.

My question is always how different forms of behaviour originate. Since this behaviour is unique to one species of spider, and is unique to Australia, it may well be that unique conditions caused this particular spider to design this particular way of acquiring food. And once a strategy is successful, of course it is passed on. I wonder how you think it originated: God giving instructions, because otherwise he could never have designed sapiens plus our food?


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