Extinctions: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? A nod to D. Raup (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, February 09, 2011, 19:50 (5036 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: My teleology theory is guidance built into DNA to allow for increased complexity, when the opportunity strikes. -dhw: > From my position on the fence, I find the whole complexity argument impossible to ignore ... i.e. one simply cannot rule out design. But it is the next step in your teleological argument that I find so illogical: namely, that humans were planned from the very beginning. -Now an interesting finding: backwards evolution, where two worms have become less complex. My theory of increasing complexity from a mechanism in DNA is under attack:-http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-simple-marine-worms-distantly-humans.html