More "miscellany" PART TWO (General)

by dhw, Thursday, May 11, 2023, 13:01 (323 days ago) @ dhw

PART TWO

Origin of humans

dhw: Do you still stand by your theory that your God operated on the pelvises, backs and legs of a group of apes and then told them to leave the trees and walk on the ground?

DAVID: God changed them so they could leave the trees.

So you stand by that theory and reject the possibility that a group of apes might have left the trees, found that life on the ground gave them a better chance of survival, and in due course their bodies adapted to the new conditions.

Dawkins dissed again and again

QUOTE: "Jarvis concludes that “selfish genes are in the ICU” and he encourages the reader to place recent discoveries into what he calls a melting pot — a place where many different people and ideas exist and often produce something new. He concludes with a question to the reader: “Are you and I ready for a new theory of evolution that may be as difficult to accept as were the revelations of Albert Einstein?'”

DAVID: Dawkins was a master writer with thin understanding of the current research. He was killed long ago.

I’d love to know what Jarvis’s new theory is, and whether he has ever considered James A. Shapiro’s theory of natural genetic engineering via the intelligence of cells. As for Dawkins, I must confess I thought your heading must refer to his book "The God Delusion", but I don’t think current research on gene behaviour will help very much in our quest for the truth about God’s existence, purposes, methods and nature.

Significance of HARs

Quote: "But their research so far does show just how unique – and unlikely – the evolution of the human brain really is." (David’s bold)

DAVID: Note the bold. It is Adler all over again!!!! Evolution has a natural pace of DNA developments. Why are humans suddenly the beneficiaries of rapid development? From trees to ground. There is no natural reason we can see. So, God in action!!??

We have never disagreed on the question of human uniqueness: no other life form has proved capable of sending rockets into outer space, writing books and symphonies, erecting buildings to worship one form of deity or another. However, the evolution of elephants, eagles and whales from single cells is also pretty astonishing, don’t you think? In fact, even a single cell that can reproduce itself and adapt and innovate is also astonishing. An eternal, sourceless mind in action, or the result of chance encounters in the course of an infinite number of chance encounters? (Shapiro's theory that the intelligent cell has directed evolution will fit either of these "first causes".)

A new discovery

QUOTES: “the paleontologists discovered the fossils of around 170 different species that likely inhabited the rocky slope along a subsiding volcano.”
“The newfound fossils also offer an unparalleled glimpse into a dynamic chapter of evolution called the great Ordovician biodiversification event. “This is when life started to get really interesting,” Muir says. “As animals diversified, ecosystems became a lot more complicated.”

DAVID: a great new find. No important gaps closed.

But a massive mystery for anyone who claims that God designed them all for the sole purpose of designing sapiens plus food. And as I have pointed out before, we would need to explore every inch of the planet before claiming that there is nothing to close the “important gaps” – and even then, can we really expect a record of every species that ever lived?


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