Life's biologic complexity: Automatic molecular actions (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 01, 2016, 19:03 (2696 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: It was your 'choosing right pathway' comment that set me off. Glad you remembered 'luck' was the proper theory. And God may have arranged for the extinctions.

dhw: Bad luck fits in with my hypothetical free-for-all, which could have been engendered by your God giving organisms the means to work out their own “salvation”. But if God may have arranged for the extinctions, they were NOT bad luck, which you now say is the “proper” theory, so you are back to tying yourself in knots.

I'm not in knots. You are assuming my statement that God may have acted on the environment to cause extinction is fact. It is not. Animals are fine until the extinction event which looks like bad luck, and may or may not be God's action. Your hypothesis is shear speculation, which does not negate my approach.