More miscellany Parts One & Two (Evolution)

by David Turell , Sunday, October 27, 2024, 17:55 (25 days ago) @ dhw

Cancer and cellular autonomy

dhw: So when you wrote that “cancer cells act autonomously as rebels”, did you mean that God programmed them [...] Or did you mean that he gave them the autonomous freedom to rebel [...]?

DAVID: God gave them nothing!!! Must I repeat the very clear-in-meaning above?

dhw: Please don’t. Just explain what you meant by “act autonomously” when you wrote that “cancer cells act autonomously”. I thought that meant they made their own decisions.

They do using God's DNA instructions

Sponges collect molybdenum (leading to ecosystem importance)

DAVID: Does time's passage confuse you? Ecosystems come and go with time.

dhw: Yes indeed, and that is why I can’t understand how every ecosystem for the first 3.X billion years prior to our existence, plus current extremophiles etc., could all have been designed to satisfy our needs.

Yes, all evolved to satisfy our current needs

Genome complexity

QUOTE: The findings might reflect how eggs adapted to different environments—fish eggs are typically fertilized outside the animal, whereas mammalian eggs are fertilized within."

DAVID: A complex of three proteins must be found by chance or the process is designed.

dhw: An egg is a cell, and the quote clearly favours deliberate adaptation by cells to their environment. Certainly not chance. A good advertisement perhaps for cellular intelligence (possibly designed by your God)?

Yes, designed by God.