Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 05, 2022, 17:55 (538 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: You agree to what. You say, 'I agree' and run right back to your illogical dissection of evolution, as unrelated dead ends. Where did our enormous ecosystem providing our food supply come from?

dhw: It evolved from those branches of evolution which were NOT dead ends. According to you, those were all life forms that sprang from nowhere during the Cambrian, although many of those life forms (e.g. the dinosaurs) were also dead ends. My totally conventional proposal is that all life forms and their ecosystems, including ours and all the dead ends, evolved from Darwin’s original few forms or one.

Exactly. Evolution produces dead ends.

hw: You cannot claim that there is a continuous line from the first life forms to us and our ecosystems and at the same time claim that we and our ecosystems are descended from a line of life forms and ecosystems that had no predecessors!

Living forms run on biologic systems. The Ediacaran biologic systems are the basis for the phenotypic Cambrian changes in form, but not living biology which is continuous. The Cambrian is based upon the Ediacaran. That is evolution!!!! Your illogical argument comes from your lack of recognizing these two aspects of changing life forms in evolution.

dhw: In one breath you tell us that all the dead ends were needed, and in the next breath you tell us they weren’t needed! We evolved from Archaea, but we didn't evolve from Archaea!

DAVID: I never said the dead ends were not needed!!! Your last sentence again shows you slicing up evolution into discontinuous parts. Without Archaea, no evolution, no humans.

dhw: I agree with your last sentence. But it is you who slice evolution up into discontinuous parts when you say that we and our ecosystems are descended from 37 phyla which your God created without predecessors! “With God as designer no predecessors needed!!!” – So you say we are not descended from Archaea, and none of the preceding life forms were needed for the creation of the species which you claim were your God’s one and only purpose! They were dead ends!

Your same confusion!! Read my comments above.