The theory of evolution is about prokariotes or better, as you know.
Still saying that evolution is about bacteria. It is about all living things descending from each other. AND IT DOES NOT WORK FOR THE REASON GIVEN - fitness, natural selection, the supposed agency of evolution will make it impossible to achieve the numerous gradual changes required for a species to transform itself into a more complex species because fitness/natural selection requires (as you have already admitted) that each and every change provide increased viability or it will destroy those with the new change.
In your own words:
It's a truism of entomology (been demonstrated in sealed mason jars thousands of times) that when two nearly identical species occupy nearly the same contained biological nitche, one or the other will eventually prevail entirely, no matter how tiny its differential advantage.
1,012 posted on 05/09/2003 9:59 PM PDT by donh ).
You have been trying to dance around this for over three hundred posts and continue to fail to address it. Without natural selection there is no 'how' to evolution, with natural selection evolution is impossible.
This is a total repeat of a previous mindlessly oblivious post of yours. What's the matter, cat got our tongue?
So you claim, once again, without the slightest hint of sensible evidence for your absurd contention that it all started with prokariotes. When you come around to at least acknowledging that I've made an argument otherwise, we can continue this conversation, until then, you will, of course, repeat your tiresome nonsensical claim over and over, hoping to make your case by wearing out your deponents patience.
No, to repeat myself yet again, evolution as a contest between discrete meat machines for scarce resources probably produced bacteria with stable DNA packages. Before there were discrete meat machines with stable DNA packages, the story of evolution would have been governed by different constraints.
I have, in the past offered several examples from the literature as to what these rules might have been. If you don't need to sustain discrete bodies in an environment that where resources are constitutionally not scarce then evolution will not be primarily contrained by failure, it will be constrained by, perhaps, the capacity for retention of viable form. God need not constrain herself to punishing failure, it would work just as well to reward endurance.