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> > DAVID:  [i]dhw sneers at my proposal that DNA has built-in planning for future major advances such as fish climbing into terrestrial life. This article is proof-positive the DNA setup for rapid advances is present. It explains the fossil gaps Gould tried to explain.[/i]
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> > dhw: [i]It had to be prepared for major advances, i.e. the mechanism had to be present – otherwise, if all life has descended from the first cells, the major advances could never have happened! […] What is your theory? That 3.8 billion years ago your God provided the first cells with a programme for occasional air breathing? […] Or did he keep popping in? […][/i]
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> > DAVID: [i]My bold of a scientist's 'waiting to happen" quote tells the story. The existing DNA allowed the advances to happen. You have not answered the real issue, how did it happen that a mechanism for advance was present undoubtedly in the first bacteria? […] Designer is implied, strongly.[/i]
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> > dhw: Thank you for at last agreeing that the MECHANISM for change was already present in the first DNA. No need for millions of computer programmes or divine dabbling. How often do you want me to repeat that nobody knows the origin of life or of this mechanism, but God is one possibility, chance is another, and a form of panpsychism is another, but I find all three first causes equally difficult to believe in.
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> Poised on the picket fence  as usual.