How epigenetics works (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, January 11, 2013, 05:42 (4124 days ago) @ dhw


>dhw; From an atheist standpoint, this has the advantage of entirely removing reliance on Darwin's random mutations, so that evolution itself becomes a naturally creative process dependent solely on interaction between living organisms and a changing environment. It has the disadvantage that the so-called "simple" forms of life must have incorporated this inventive intelligence from the beginning in a mechanism so complex that the odds against its chance assembly become incalculable. -Bravo. Finally seeing my point. of course, the complexity has to be at the very beginning or you can't get hwere from there.
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> dhw; From a theist standpoint, the latter is the most obvious advantage. However, the above scenario runs counter to the anthropocentric interpretation of evolution, because of its higgledy-piggledy progress, unless God found his plans going awry and needed to intervene "at appropriate moments" (goodbye to omniscience and omnipotence). -No. It is anthropocentric. We are here. What caused ur big brain? it wasn't needed by the circumstances what it appeared. It was caused! We started very close to apes. They are still doing their thing, thank you, living just fine as long as we con't interfere, which unfortunately we tend to do. They didn't grow any more neurons because they were not required Neither were ours but we've got them. For no good reason except under pre-planning they were required.