Re: [asa] Collins' book is reviewed by the Arizona Origins

Gordon Brown wrote:

> Why is it assumed that God must prearrange to assemble something by
> natural processes one small step at a time? Couldn't he predestine several
> changes to happen simultaneously? That would look like design, which would
> not please atheists, and would still be by natural processes, which would
> probably not be what most Iders want.
>

I see, sort of like in a game of pool, getting all the balls
to land in the holes on the first shot. The odds are low even
with the aid of a computer program, but the action of the
individual balls is rather straight forward freshman physics.

We usually think of genes as independent and therefore assume
independent probabilities for the evolution. But I don't
see any reason that is necessarily so for all events. So just
like an ordered arrangement of the billiard balls, one good hit
might set off a chain reaction. For a group of subunits,
perhaps there is RNA or DNA editing, and/or alternative splicing
that might lead to some coupled chain reaction. We hardly
understand what goes no in a cell anyway.

Interesting....

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Received on Mon Oct 9 10:02:44 2006