You are using a script intended to refute an Atheistic view of Evolution. Here, the view is that God guides the evolution of humanity, as well as all the other creatures. It appears random from one view, but it is intentionally guided from a divine perspective.
You use a very odd sentence: “When a change arrives, the environment is altered to suit it and encourage more change along that line so long as the environmental modifications are not unlike something they could encounter in nature.” In other words, if I understand you correctly, you propose changing the environment of, say, a test population of fruit flies, every time there is a mutation.
If the population is big enough, there is a mutation (somewhere in the population) most every generation. And while we now have the technology to determine that there has been a genetic change in some sub-groups, but not others, we are certainly not in a position to know what the ultimate affect of a mutation might be. And without knowing that, we would not be able to design a new environmental factor that would leverage the importance of this or that mutation.
In the natural state, populations “store” genetic changes… with a little luck, the mutation doesn’t wipe out it’s owner… and after dozens or hundreds of generations, the mutation might still only exist in a small portion of the population. Over time, there are multiple overlapping configurations of mutated genes scattered throughout the population. And when an eco-crisis occurs (temperature, food sources, water supply, predation pressures and so forth), it is a “lever” that is applied to the entire population.
The closest I’ve seen to replicating this kind of natural selection and spontaneous mutations was recorded in this now famous laboratory video made by Harvard School of Medicine.
You can literally see where increased concentrations of toxic anti-biotics are blocking the progress of bacterial expansion… for a while. But because of the “imperfection of genetic replication” inherent to bacteria reproduction, suddenly we see a center of new growth and expansion … right into the toxic environment that had been killing off generations of unprepared bacteria.
Unfortunately, from your viewpoint, we start with bacteria and we end with bacteria. But to the global explorers of the 1500’s, a distant troop of gorillas looked just like a hairy tribe of humans. The remaining step with the bacteria is to run a sustained loop of these evolutions, over and over, and test how compatible the different bacterial clusters are with each other.
I would not be surprised if one group of “hyper survivor” bacteria was not only quite a different kind of bacteria than the population that started out in this experiment… but also quite different from other “hyper survivor” strains on the other side of the table!
Behold… and be amazed.
