Intelligence (Origins)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 09, 2013, 14:51 (4065 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:I've tried to pin down the process implied by your God hypothesis: "Do you believe that God pre-programmed the very first cells to pass the blueprint for sex/liver/brain down through countless generations of individual organisms and different species, or that every innovation was the result of his stepping in and fiddling with the genes?" I do hope you will find time to answer, as this is the question I'm really concerned with.-With our growing knowledge of epigenetics and the newer findings of orphan genes, I think most is preplanning of genome abilities to allow intensely investigative solutions, which is why we see so much convergence, seven types of eyes as the best example. Tweaking as a sharp demarcation is not seen in the gene record. I suppose God could be so subtle as to go unnoticed. But I doubt it.