Life's biologic complexity: Automatic molecular actions (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, December 19, 2016, 12:54 (2678 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I still prefer a freewheeling drive to complexity theory and the absolute need for a balance of nature to supply energy.

dhw: I like “freewheeling” – in contrast to your previous claims that God is in total control. And yes, life needs energy if it is to go on. Neither of these observations precludes the notion that God might have created humans as an afterthought, or might have experimented in his quest to produce a creature with consciousness like his own. Both hypotheses explain the higgledy-piggledy history of life on Earth.

DAVID: Yes, freewheeling, but if it goes off course it is directed back to the purpose of producing humans. God is watching and in final control at all times.

This is a strange development. I ought to welcome it, because it tells us that your God gave organisms the ability you have so long denied – namely to organize their own evolution. But if freewheeling had to serve his purpose of producing humans, you have a problem, unless you truly believe that God dabbled to ensure that the pre-whale, the migrating monarch and the nest-building weaverbird came back on course to produce humans – a connection which even you find puzzling. How about the dinosaurs? Did they freewheel unprogrammed and undabbled into their own existence, and then God chucked Chicxulub at them because they were off course?