Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote (Daniel Smith @ Oct. 05 2007,22:19) | | Quote (Reciprocating Bill @ Oct. 05 2007,06:38) | | Quote (Daniel Smith @ Oct. 05 2007,04:24) | | Which brings me to your questions of what genetic mechanism I would propose for designed descent. First let me say that we have witnessed a saltational evolutionary event consistent with designed descent in our lifetime - the nylon bug. That this was saltational is pretty straightforward since an entirely new enzyme was created in one step. That the code for this enzyme was pre-existing also makes it consistent with designed descent. I know most of you will probably disagree with my assessment of this, but I believe it could very well be a window into how saltational evolution could occur - especially as genomes are found to contain more embedded, overlapping codes. |
Now you would have us include, among the pre-envisioned contingent environmental events for which the genome contains pre-planned, pre-sequenced adaptations, the entire history of cumulative human technological advances, particularly mastery of chemical and manufacturing processes that lead to the introduction of nylon in 1938, and its subsequent widespread use.
Which returns us to:
"An omniscient supernatural being (an all knowing God) with foreknowledge of every environmental shift in every inhabited environment on earth over 3.8 billion years (shifts that resulted from everything from chaotic fluctuations in the sun's output to the Yucatan asteroid) front-loaded into the first prokaryotic life appropriate preplanned sequences of evolutionary transitions (adaptations, speciations, extinction events) for every one of the countless lineages of organisms that would descend from those first organism over those ensuing billions of years."
Does this fairly summarize your view? The "designer" pre-envisioned Dupont, and planned for it along with the Yucatan asteroid? |
If you're going to make a list of everything an all-knowing God would know, you've got a long way to go.
(don't forget your birthday! ... and the number of hairs on your head, and ...) |
OK - but the question was: Does this fairly summarize your view?
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