Posted: Jun 06, 2017 7:24 pm
Rumraket wrote:OrdinaryClay wrote:rumraket, good info and I'll go there in a minute.
Second observation, which to me seems completely non-controversial whether you are a materialist or not. The sample space over the entire history of life on the earth is staggeringly enormous (yes I'm completely on board with the 3.8 BY give or take trajectory of life). No?
Sure, the space of potential, probably never realized genomic sequences, is enormous. Much greater than the sampled one.
What is an unrealized genomic sequence? Still borne?
OrdinaryClay wrote:So here is my question and where I'm positive there will great gnashing of teeth ... Does this not give evolutionary biologists pause,
I don't think so. I'm not an evolutionary biologist, so I can only answer for myself. No. Not in the least. Why should it?OrdinaryClay wrote:For a materialists what is the explanation they use for why it happened just once? Just "shit happens"?
The explanation for why what in particular just happened once? I'm not sure I understand the question.
What: An intellectual achievement such as mapping the genome of it's own species.
Do you think convergent evolution is common or rare?