All excellent points. Yes, Pye also pointed out the difference between the primates (48 chromosomes / 24 pairs) and humans (46 chromosomes / 23 pairs). As he said, "A species does not lose one entire chromosome pair and turn out BETTER." I'm also aware of the many (too many) genetic deficiencies that humans we have, suggesting that we are not a natural species adapted to Earth.
Operating purely from memory here (my copy of "Darwin's Black Box" is on loan right now), two of the complicated systems of the human body used as examples by Michael Behe are the clotting factor and the bacterium flagellum in the human gut. Behe used the term "Irreducible complexity" to describe these functions, in that "certain biological systems with multiple interacting parts would not function if one of the parts was removed, so supposedly could not have evolved by successive small modifications from earlier less complex systems through natural selection, which would need all intermediate precursor systems to have been fully functional."
It's an interesting point you bring up about circadian cycles and Mars, but while I understand it, it's a rabbit hole I won't go down at this time. Suffice it to say that there is more about human origins and human history than could be written about in this limited venue. There is strong circumstantial and a bit of direct evidence that the human genome has been "tweaked" over the past few millennia, including the side insertion of 223 so-called "alien genes" (https://newslog.cyberjournal.org/human-origins-223-mystery-genes/) at some point in our recent history; i.e., within the last 100,000 years.
I'm not sure that we will know the complete picture of human origins in my lifetime, but I remain hopeful that more revelations will be made in coming years.
All excellent points. Yes, Pye also pointed out the difference between the primates (48 chromosomes / 24 pairs) and humans (46 chromosomes / 23 pairs). As he said, "A species does not lose one entire chromosome pair and turn out BETTER." I'm also aware of the many (too many) genetic deficiencies that humans we have, suggesting that we are not a natural species adapted to Earth.
Operating purely from memory here (my copy of "Darwin's Black Box" is on loan right now), two of the complicated systems of the human body used as examples by Michael Behe are the clotting factor and the bacterium flagellum in the human gut. Behe used the term "Irreducible complexity" to describe these functions, in that "certain biological systems with multiple interacting parts would not function if one of the parts was removed, so supposedly could not have evolved by successive small modifications from earlier less complex systems through natural selection, which would need all intermediate precursor systems to have been fully functional."
It's an interesting point you bring up about circadian cycles and Mars, but while I understand it, it's a rabbit hole I won't go down at this time. Suffice it to say that there is more about human origins and human history than could be written about in this limited venue. There is strong circumstantial and a bit of direct evidence that the human genome has been "tweaked" over the past few millennia, including the side insertion of 223 so-called "alien genes" (https://newslog.cyberjournal.org/human-origins-223-mystery-genes/) at some point in our recent history; i.e., within the last 100,000 years.
I'm not sure that we will know the complete picture of human origins in my lifetime, but I remain hopeful that more revelations will be made in coming years.