causation (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, June 07, 2014, 11:51 (3603 days ago) @ David Turell

ROMANSH: ...evolution is guided by the environment a living creature finds itself. So in that sense it is guided.-DAVID: Have you followed the epigenetic mechanisms in which the organism seems to mimic Lamark? And guides its own destiny?-Dhw: Delighted to see this exchange. It clearly supports the theory that evolution proceeds according to the interaction between an ever changing environment and the adaptive and inventive mechanisms within the cell communities of the organisms themselves. No pre-planning. No pre-programming. Not even divine intervention. The organism "guides its own destiny." Hallelujah!
-DAVID: I don't know how you have gotten rid of pre-programming. How did cell communities develop the 'adaptive and inventive' mechanisms; by chance mutations? Where did the information required come from?-Your questions have nothing to do with pre-programming, which would mean that the cell communities had no freedom of their own but simply did as they had been instructed to do - the exact opposite of an organism that "guides its own destiny". How did the mechanisms come into being? Maybe your God created them. All of the comments referred to the course of evolution, not to the origin of the mechanisms that enable evolution to take place.