Cell Memories (Identity)

by David Turell , Thursday, October 31, 2013, 17:13 (3828 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: You are right, and in my theist hat I was focusing too closely on your anthropomorphic scenario. The great plan would be the higgledy-piggledy comings and goings themselves, which I do find reasonable: your God entertaining himself or experimenting. What my theistic reason cannot cope with is the idea that trilobites and dinosaurs and all the other extinct creatures with their zillions of innovations were preprogrammed into the first living organisms as part of the great plan to hatch humans. -I don't know what was planned as intermediate species on the way to humans. How do you know in your theistic mode that dinosaurs were planned? I don't. I don't know why you insist on that speculation. These were life's experiments on the way to us. I've already indicated organisms had a small series of choices based on stimuli type and strength. So there resulted experimental forms along the way. I see nothing wrong with that senario. Certainly fits with life's diversity we see now and in the past.