Genome complexity: DNA 3D layer of gene control (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 14:14 (2529 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Exactly my point. That is why life is a miracle, all those dead molecules coming to life in the right arrangement. You don't want to see the miracle, because it implies you have to accept God!

dhw: I thought your point was that cells can’t think. How on earth you can believe, after all these years of discussion, that I don’t see the miracle of life just because I offer the hypothesis that cells may have a (possibly God-given) intelligence, is quite beyond me.

DAVID: I'm delighted you see the miracle. What causes miracles? That brings us to the supernatural, doesn't it?

No, it doesn’t. Tony tried to play the same silly verbal game. The word miracle can ALSO mean “something very lucky or very good which you did not expect to happen or did not think was possible. It’s a miracle you weren’t killed!” (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English).

DAVID: Of course cells can't think.

Of course those experts who tell us cells can think are wrong. David knows best.

DAVID: Your theories are all an avoidance of considering God as the source, even your 'possibly God-given' allowances which never say God gave the cells intelligently planned instructions, which to me is the logical conclusion.

I am an agnostic. If I could accept any theory that excludes God, I would be an atheist. The fact that I offer a theory which includes the possibility of God but runs contrary to your personal interpretation of your God’s thinking – an interpretation which is simply riddled with contradictions and anomalies – does not mean I am avoiding considering God as the source. It means I am offering an alternative hypothesis which even you agree fits in with the history of life as we know it. But I can understand why you are so keen to divert attention away from your own illogical dogma by manufacturing a false motive for my hypothetical but logical alternative!