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> > David’s comment : [i]Of course there are 'functional reasons' for changes. They require planning. The big black box in our discussions is our lack of knowledge. We can tell which genes control what function or what appears in embryogenesis but we have no idea how the controls work, how the gene actually does its direction through chemical action. Until we have this knowledge, if it is possible to find, we will have no idea how speciation occurs. A fluffy nod to intelligence in cells tells us nothing of what we need to know. What is obvious is the need for prior planning, which only a competent mind can provide.[/i]
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> > dhw: A fluffy nod to an unknown sourceless mind tells us nothing of what we need to know. Adaptation suggests that organisms can respond to conditions without “prior planning”. There are some scientists who have concluded from their tests and observations that cells ARE intelligent, so the suggestion that they may be intelligent enough to invent as well as to adapt is not as fluffy as you would like it to be. After all, intelligence seen from the outside might actually be intelligence.
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> Yes, the whale series was all done by cell committees.