Evolution: gaps are very real (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, June 24, 2017, 11:42 (2492 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID’s comment: More support for the size of gaps in the fossil record. The contamination of the Darwin theory of tiny steps has caused scientists to misinterpret fossils. With newer methods of analysis and open minds, the truth appears. Gould is getting more support. Changes of this type require multiple coordinated mutations, not likely by chance. Advanced design planning is required, obviously. This is not epigenetic adaptation but major body form change all at once.
DAVID’s comment (under “vicious venoms”): Think about it. The wasps have a very complex lifestyle which involves turning prey into zombies for their larvae to feast on. And just the right single mutation changes gene expression to make just the right brain venom to get just the right zombie control. All by chance? Never!

I agree with most of these comments, but as usual I would like to balance them against your own theories. Do you, then, believe that 3.8 billion years ago your God provided the first cells with programmes for Lethiscus’s transition from water to land and for the wasp’s venomous lifestyle (along with programmes for the few billion other species, lifestyles and natural wonders extant and extinct)? And all these programmes were passed down through countless generations of cells and cell communities (organisms) and all the different environments until the right time and place arrived – also preprogrammed, or left to chance? - for pre-Lethy and pre-Waspy to switch on their own particular programme? And do you believe that your God specially designed all these individual programmes (or personally dabbled the changes) in order to keep life going (= balance of nature) until he could fulfil his one and only purpose of producing Homo sapiens? Or is it just possible that he gave them and the rest the means of working out their own ways of life and of adjusting their bodies accordingly?