Interesting. However, I seem to be confused reading your posts on evolution by statements like “Squirrels jump from treetop to treetop using just their muscles”—obviously they use at leat their bones, too; so maybe there are other cases where you use ‘compression to obvious’, and I begin to be afraid that I missed them. That I cannot understand your meaning in fullness when you begin talking about things that I know poorly.
As to incremental evolution, we already know there are genes controlling development, and they are highly conserved. Evolution can happen when one such gene accidentally mutates, and the resulting monster turns out to be viable. It would have many different traits, not just one.
Interesting. However, I seem to be confused reading your posts on evolution by statements like “Squirrels jump from treetop to treetop using just their muscles”—obviously they use at leat their bones, too; so maybe there are other cases where you use ‘compression to obvious’, and I begin to be afraid that I missed them. That I cannot understand your meaning in fullness when you begin talking about things that I know poorly. As to incremental evolution, we already know there are genes controlling development, and they are highly conserved. Evolution can happen when one such gene accidentally mutates, and the resulting monster turns out to be viable. It would have many different traits, not just one.