Biological complexity: homeostasis (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, October 29, 2018, 17:08 (2007 days ago) @ dhw

Dhw: I propose that evolution advances not through planning for a future which organisms know nothing about, but through their responses to the requirements and opportunities that arise out of the changing conditions in which they live at the time.

DAVID: I glad we agree that one form of intelligence can foresee the future and design for it. What I have bolded is the worn out Darwinian tiny-step-by-tiny-step approach you have given which ignores every gap we see in evolution. Gaps imply only design works. Darwin wisely recognized the problem and got around the point by assuming the gaps would be filled. They haven't and have become worse than he imagined.

dhw: Now that you have withdrawn your absurdly limited definition of intelligence, you revert to the dead horse flogging of Darwin’s gradualism, which I have already rejected a hundred times.

I can't help that you totally misinterpreted my comment about one form of intelligence. I've withdrawn nothing.