Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00318)

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:30:46 EST WLR7D@aol.com wrote:

> The evidences you cite for macroevolution are a matter of forcing the facts
> to fit the theory.  Macroevolution may occur but not by the mechanisms
> popularized-mutations and selection.
>
> Think on this for a minute.  According to evolution we have eyes because they
> make us more fit.  Problem is, anything less than a perfectly functioning
> complete eye is a hindrance.  Therefore all the zillions of steps necessary
> to evolve an eye would create less fit creatures which according to natural
> selection would be removed from the population.  But if the intermediary
> steps necessary to evolve the eye were culled out by selection, then our
> ancestors would have been culled.  If they were culled, then we do not exist.
>  But we do.  Thus the problem of mechanism.
>
> This is a really interesting problem from a philosophical standpoint.  It
> seems to point to a mechanism for our existence outside of presently
> understood science.  Right up our alley right?
yes, it points to the idea of intelligence somehow using
the physical mechanism of evolution (I am not letting that
go) to go and develop something, like in this case: the
eye. or an even more challenging notion for science:
intelligence and creativity.

Katinka
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NHL Leeuwarden
hesse600@tem.nhl.nl