Intelligence (Origins)

by dhw, Monday, March 11, 2013, 09:06 (4062 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw (to Tony): 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.-DAVID: 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 [innovative?] 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.-So do you believe that God pre-programmed the very first cells to pass the blueprint for the liver down through countless generations of individual organisms and different species, or do you believe that one day he popped a few readymade livers into a few existing organisms?