Automatic cell activity (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 25, 2013, 15:43 (4026 days ago) @ dhw


> Evolution (uppercase E ) is the belief that everything in the world evolved by blind chance.
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> Evolution is not a belief, but let that pass. It's the theory that describes the process by which living organisms have developed from earlier ancestral forms. - Your interpretation of Evolutonary theory is wrong. As I interpret the purveyors of a strictly Darwin-style of evolutionary theory, it is a "belief" that the whole process is constructed from a chance mechanism. Dawkins hangs his hat on chance. That means atheism is OK, since all evolution is a natural chance process. But it looks too complex to me to be entirely by chance. That is why I believe in theistic evolution. And that is why your interpretation above is wrong. Theory is a form of belief, and it does not 'describe' an accurate process. It proposes a process to be investigated, which is then open for research. Chance mutation and natural selection now appear to be a tiny part of the process, and machinations within the genome are discovered to be a major portion of the process. -I interpret this as a degree of complexity that disallows chance and introduces the theory that Darwin's theory is not a natural process.