More Denton: unlikely transitions (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, April 20, 2015, 21:46 (3295 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Fins to limbs looks really impossible, as do scales to feathers, and angiosperms (flowering plants), like the Cambrian animals have no antecedents:-http://inference-review.com/article/evolution-a-theory-in-crisis-revisited-part-two-The basic problem is that there are no transitional fossils. Darwin thought/hoped the gaps would be filled eventually by new discoveries. No luck in the last 150 years. Your response is that God preprogrammed the very first cells with every single change, through a computer programme that would unfold during the next few thousand million years. Either that or he kept dabbling (= separate creation for each innovation). I have suggested an alternative: that innovation, which has never been observed, may have been the product of the same autonomous mechanism within cells/cell communities that organizes their adaptation. The origin of the mechanism is a separate subject. Same problem as usual, same alternatives as usual. Round we go...