Sticking a fork in Natural Selection (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, December 09, 2011, 15:02 (4734 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: And so the discussion is the same as usual – chance v. design. There are no forks being stuck into natural selection or even Darwinism in general, apart from the undermining of gradualism.

Gould did not see gradualism. The Cambrian is the biggest problem for Darwin's theory. In the 10 million year period, all of the basic parts were created for the species that exist today. This is extrememly sudden complexity. To explain my "God's" role: He planned all of this in advance. We are beginning to unpeel the onion of the genome. Epigenetic discovery shows the organism can quickly re-adapt when it has to. The guiding mechanisms to reach H. sapiens are there. It took only 6 million years to develop a brilliant brain like dhw's. And the chimps are in stasis. Only one of us species are the chosen among the species.