Evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, October 09, 2010, 14:37 (5158 days ago) @ dhw


> There is some sort of misunderstanding here. No. 1 and No. 5 are identical, except that No. 1 is without God (a "self-assembled mechanism"), and No. 5 is with God.-I assumed a UI in #1.
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> I have a problem with the leap from one-celled forms to multicellular forms with different body parts. Why and how would unicellular forms, which continued to survive as they were, also evolve after all that time into these new forms? "Different body parts" raises the whole question of innovation. If you are going to start with archaia and finish with us, you have to account for the vast range of new and enormously complex organs, systems, connections, none of which were needed by the original archaia or bacteria for their survival.-I don't have to account for anything. You have described the enormous problem the Cambrian Explosion presents to the Darwin Theory. Just how did that work? Not by chance mutation and nadtural selection. It had to be by an epigenetic mechanism driving the changes.
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> The structures we share with the rest of the animal kingdom are clear, and to me represent the best evidence we have that there are common ancestors, but we are all a long, long way down the line. It's the gap in your account between the original forms and your "shortly before the Cambrian Explosion" that throws up so many unanswered (unanswerable?) questions.-Yes it does!!