(May 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm)RDK Wrote: And did I forget to mention symbiotic relationships? Two totally unconnected species connecting for the benefit of both. Take the Venus Fly Trap for example. The plant has obviously deviated from the normal course of photosynthesis to that of devouring bugs. Was sunlight really such a difficult thing to keep using?
One finds predatory plants in poor soils. They still use sunlight, they're basically grabbing themselves some fertilizer.
(May 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm)RDK Wrote: Of course, eating flies only benefits the plant. What genetic variation has to occur to include a method of catching something it has no way to recognize or plan for?
A long series of many small ones that each benefited the plant but was not planned in advance.
(May 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm)RDK Wrote: Here is your problem. Any variation, if the plant could plan that far in advance, include all of the necessary devices to catch a bug.
No advanced planning is involved. Each variation conserved by natural selection had to be useful to the plant. Finding actual evidence that preplanning was involved would serve the Intelligent Design folks enormously, yet they haven't been able to find a single example of it that stands up to scrutiny.
(May 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm)RDK Wrote: In cellular terms , this must have been something like jumping right out of the ground and singing Hello Dolly! Upwardly mobile decisions is not a possibility in evolution, as obviously, there have to be similarities in species before they can reproduce. There can be NO gradual introduction of accidental variations to create this plant.
You can't even be bothered to Google 'evolution of the Venus flytrap' before making your pronouncements, can you?
(May 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm)RDK Wrote: All of the functions of such a mechanism would have to be planned for in advance, stored into a genetic memory, and then implemented into some usable form which can be reproduced with the advantage of an equally advanced mate.
No, they wouldn't, and they weren't.
(May 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm)RDK Wrote: Sound impossible?
Sounds like an ignorant creationist strawman.
(May 14, 2014 at 11:31 pm)RDK Wrote: It is! Try another theory!
We did. It's called evoluton. What do you call YOUR cockamamie theory?
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.