Darwin evolution going backwards? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 04, 2008, 22:50 (5705 days ago) @ Carl

According to Wikipedia, the largest genome is that of the Amoeba. Evolution does not have an "objective", but is the outcome of a mindless process. - I can confirm that Carl and Wikipedia are absolutely correct. (Never fully trust the information in Wikipedia.) The DNA of amoeba is larger than human DNA, which is over six-feet long stretched end to end, but the amoeba's DNA is mainly non-functional. Carl's declaration that evolution is a 'mindless process' is an unproven position, taken by Carl on faith. I can raise the question of why is an early entry on the tree of life so rich in potentially useful DNA? Pre-planning for the complexity to come? My statement/question comes with faith that pre-planning did or does exist. For example the pax-6 gene which controls eye development probably appeared over 600 million years ago (Conway Morris, The Crucible of Creation, 1998) whereas organisms that began to develop eyes appeared in the Cambrian Explosion, some 60-80 million years later. Conservation of a gene not being used for so many years smells of pre-planning. There are many other examples of conservation of this type.