Evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, October 08, 2010, 21:12 (5158 days ago) @ dhw


> 1)	All the forms we now know developed spontaneously from a single original self-assembled mechanism with the potential for constant adaptation (changing environments) and innovation (new organs). (The Dawkins brand of faith.)
> 2)	Different mechanisms spontaneously put themselves together at the same time or at different times (multiple forms of abiogenesis), with different potentials for adaptation and innovation.
> 3)	A universal intelligence created all forms of life separately (orthodox Creationism).
> 4)	A UI created certain general categories of life separately, with the potential for further development and variation (Creationism incorporating evolution).
> 5)	A UI created a single mechanism which allowed potentially for constant adaptation and innovation. 
> 6)	A UI keeps making things up as it goes along.-
The best sense is made by knowing how evollution developed. There were one-celled forms until shortly before the Cambrian Explosion when mutlcellular froms developed with different body parts. The Ediacarans and Bilatarians were very simple in construction. Therefore life started with unicellar forms, one type, the Archaea, and advanced after 3.2 billion years. Choice No. 1. The advance was mediated in DNA which had coding to guide the advance with the help of natural selection, as the Earth also evolved with differing climates and different arrangement of the land masses. That is Choice 5. Nothing else fits. In comparative anatomy everything changes slightly off a main plan, but is consistent. A horse hoof is a toe, compared to a bear, an elephant or a human. A UI dithering along as in 6 would not be so consistent.-In summary 1 and 5.