John D. Brey
Well-Known Member
The Lenski experiment with 10,000 generations of e.Coli is interesting,
and if you could do the same thing with flowers or humans you would
see the same thing. And placed in a stress environment evolution
speeds up enormously. So... every organism on earth has this inbuilt
ability/need to evolve - its built into us.
Experiments like the Lenski experiment twisted the knife in the side of Neo-Darwinism. They show that organisms adapt in a manner specifically designed and aligned with an undeniable attempt to adapt to environmental hazards or benefits.
Knowing that some form of conscious, or planned, biological impetus, is the death-knell for Neo-Darwinian ideology (i.e., the belief that no conscious or planned design characteristics are involved in the shape and kinds of living organisms), Neo-Darwinists bristled anytime an idiot like me argued against the Neo-Darwinian sacred-cow of unplanned, totally random, evolutionary direction.
Experimentation showed that the mutations affected when a stress was added to the environment were clearly, mathematically, beyond any doubt whatsoever, aimed at dealing specifically, and effectively, with the stress in the environment. The organisms were participating in some conscious way in how they dealt with the stress in the environment.
To their credit, the Neo-Darwinists know what it means if conscious design, intentional design, is part of the story of life. It's a slippery-slope that slides right back to the theology Neo-Darwinisms was hoping to replace.
John
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