Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 08, 2022, 15:31 (533 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: God decides what He has to do. I'm sure you accept that point.

dhw: No, I don’t. If your God exists as first cause, there is no pressure on him to do anything. I assume he does what he wants to do, not what he has to do.

Since your God is not goal-oriented (free-for-all) of course He doesn't know what He has to do.

dhw: 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!

DAVID: Again confusing the relationship of phenotypes with evolutionary biochemistry. The two are separate parts of evolution. We can trace our start from the first vertebrate fish in the Cambrian which is based on the biochemistry from the Ediacaran. A designer obviously can jump form types. The continuity is the living biochemistry.
And under “an aged enzyme”
DAVID: this article puts to rest dhw's complaint about evolutionary continuity being disrupted with the advent of Cambrian forms without form predecessors. Evolutionary continuity is in the biochemistry, which then can be used in a massive variety of forms, as shown by the massive bush of life.

dhw: All living forms are composed of cells (that’s your biochemistry). According to you, your God began creating life with the sole purpose of combining cells into the forms of sapiens plus food, and so he proceeded to combine cells into “a massive variety of forms”, the vast majority of which had nothing to do with sapiens plus food. After 3.X thousand million years’ worth of combining cells into forms that had nothing to do with sapiens plus food, he combined cells into forms which had no predecessors, and from some (but not all) of these forms he went on fiddling with cells until eventually he produced the forms we call sapiens plus all the other forms that sapiens eats. You can natter on about biochemistry (cells) as long as you like, but how does that explain why he used the biochemistry to create forms that had nothing to do with his one and only purpose? Please will you stop dodging!

The history of evolution is what it is no matter how you distort the interpretation I have. I concentrate on the underlying biochemistry, because there can be no phenotypic forms without it. I'm not dodging. The finding of an enzyme tracing back to Archaea tells us there will be many more. Without those enzymes there is no life. And with established living biochemistry, a designing God can make any forms He wishes with or without predecessors. It is not a dodge. Learn to accept the point.

Cambrian explosion: early skeletal form found

QUOTES: This really is a one-in-million discovery.

"In other words, external skeletons probably didn't arise just once but probably evolved several times in multiple different lineages.”

"Even from the little evidence scientists have found, it is clear that tube-shaped animals were popping up before the explosion of animal diversity that once took our life by storm. What triggered their expansion remains an open question…”

dhw: A few days ago I pointed out that the quest for fossils was not yet over. Thank you for proving my point and for providing us with another link between pre-explosion and explosion.

It is not a link before the Cambrian. It is a Cambrian animal with a new discovery about it.