the way my mind works, the first semiconductor or even a 555 Timer are connected in all these images
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only difference is the packaging/moisture content .
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You missed a critical difference between "Joe" and the other objects - life. Joe is able to repair himself. Joe is able to procreate. Joe is able to learn, albeit in a very limited fashion. Joe is able to metabolize food for energy. The other objects are products of, you guessed it, intelligent
design. They can perform exact, specific tasks as they were
designed to do. They cannot learn a new task, they cannot reproduce, they cannot repair themselves, they cannot think. In short, they are, and will remain, exactly as they were
designed.
my best guess is it started at RNA, once the divisions started, god only know where it'll end up
given enough time. if I wanted to change RNA to DNA I would use some radiation.
So, using your idea about radiation, there should be all kinds of "evolved" humans coming from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl and Fukushima. All were exposed to very intense levels of radiation. Many people were exposed to lower levels of radiation. I'm not sure how radiation re-arranges the nucleotides in a DNA strand? The only thing happening to DNA when exposed to radiation is destruction, as far as we have observed. The only "evolution" witnessed when DNA is damaged by radiation is cancer - and it eventually kills the host. It does not create a new life form - it mutates the existing life form into something that cannot sustain itself. When the host dies, it dies too.
why is fossil records so incomplete, IMO it's because fossilization requires certain things to happen in a certain order, which countless generations of all types of life has lived here fossil records do show that, most never fossilize because of no hard mass, even when there are horns fossil records are very limited because of the other requirements, covered quickly as to not become food, mineralization requires fixed resources present, then pressure and lots of time. all the above renders fossil records incomplete and a rare occurrence.
Sorry Tommy - you can't have it both ways. There are definite fossils of millions of types of flora and fauna, spread across millions of years. If there is a fossil of Rev. 1 of dogs, and we are supposedly at Rev. 25 of dogs, there should be a fossil record of at least some of Rev. 2 - 24. But there isn't.
It is interesting - you said this: "it's because fossilization requires certain things to happen in a certain order".
So, during the millions of years of elapsed time, you believe that no transitional fossils occurred because "fossilization requires certain things to happen in a certain order", yet you also believe that something as complex as DNA which, by the way, requires exponentially more things to happen in a certain order, did manage to happen billions of times across the planet? Do you see the contradiction in that thinking?
I have enjoyed the interaction and input from most everyone in this thread but I think the conversation has run its course. Thank you for your considerate interaction and polite demeanor. It is refreshing to see people can still talk and agree to disagree without insulting one another.