Origin of Life; pre-planning (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, October 08, 2011, 01:54 (4796 days ago) @ dhw


> The article is concerned with the movement from complex to simple: "The study lends support to a hypothesis that LUCA [= last universal common ancestor] may have been more complex than the simplest organisms alive today, said James Whitfield, a professor of entomology at Illinois and a co-author on the study." And bacteria "may actually be reduced versions of what was there originally." What preceded LUCA is irrelevant to the question I've asked above, which is a challenge to the theory of "pre-planning", though not to the theory of intelligent design. In my view, the more higgledy-piggledy the advance, the less evidence it provides for pre-planning. But of course by tomorrow someone may have come up with a different version of LUCA.-All of the above is hypothetical. Remember, read the results and reach your own conclusions. A very early organelle in LUCA is totally weird and unexpected if life started simply. Why is it there? Don't listen to professors' conjectures. Pre-planning is ID by the UI. If we are going to accept evolution as the road to humans, then pre-planning is entirely reasonable.