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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Re: Does Darwin's Evolution Theory explain metamorphosis caterpillar to butterfly?
« on: 11/03/2013 05:59:52 »
This is a topic that has fascinated me for a long time. I recently reread 'Quantum Evolution - life in the Multiverse', after reading, it occurred to that it was another book about evolution that did not mention metamorphosis in the butterfly's life cycle. Maybe some authors do try to explain but I have not found any with realist suggestions.
I found this thread and read it with interest. I have the following comment.
‘Evolution is slow’ wrote somebody. This is of course very true, but the meaning is surely that it is composed of small steps not just that it took a long time. That each small step must be an ‘improvement’ or at least a survivable alternative is the unavoidable meaning within the Darwinian theory. One alternative is that quantum effects in the ‘Multiverse’ allow several steps to occur as long as they are possible before returning to the classical state. That is, only several changes within one gene causing a jump in characteristics, rather than a small change. This allows several things that are puzzling in the science of evolution still. Maybe the strange life cycles involving metamorphosis are some that could be allowed?
It seems unlikely to me, as the change from without a chrysalis stage to using it; seems rather more than a few small steps!! I don’t understand how a gene can contain the information for two independent lives (it seems). Yet a frog (for example) goes through two very independent life types without going into an amorphous mass as an intermediate stage. Which came first? The frog’s evolutionary life cycle or the butterfly’s step?
I found this thread and read it with interest. I have the following comment.
‘Evolution is slow’ wrote somebody. This is of course very true, but the meaning is surely that it is composed of small steps not just that it took a long time. That each small step must be an ‘improvement’ or at least a survivable alternative is the unavoidable meaning within the Darwinian theory. One alternative is that quantum effects in the ‘Multiverse’ allow several steps to occur as long as they are possible before returning to the classical state. That is, only several changes within one gene causing a jump in characteristics, rather than a small change. This allows several things that are puzzling in the science of evolution still. Maybe the strange life cycles involving metamorphosis are some that could be allowed?
It seems unlikely to me, as the change from without a chrysalis stage to using it; seems rather more than a few small steps!! I don’t understand how a gene can contain the information for two independent lives (it seems). Yet a frog (for example) goes through two very independent life types without going into an amorphous mass as an intermediate stage. Which came first? The frog’s evolutionary life cycle or the butterfly’s step?