Shedding Light On How Cells Communicate (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, November 17, 2012, 12:31 (4391 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: You said earlier: "It is hard for me to imagine that we have evolved beyond what existed before us" ... which was a reference to God, not to bacteria. In that case I can only ask, don't you find it hard to imagine a God that does not have the capacity to feel all the things we humans feel?-DAVID: Since God is such an extraordinary person, I don't know that we can envision what He feels or how He feels. Religions tells us He is love. But just as likely He is sitting back watching his experiment, as you suggest. We can imply a personality with feelings, but we don't know. It is back to faith, which is a leap away from science.-Agreed. It would therefore be as pointless to insist that God does not have certain attributes as it is to insist that he does have them. For me there are two opposing clues: -1) It is difficult to imagine a self-conscious creator making something totally alien to himself ... i.e. he must be able to feel whatever we feel.-2) The impersonality of Nature suggests the absence, lack of interest, insensitivity, or non-existence of a god. This impersonality also fits in perfectly with the concept of an intelligent but unself-conscious first cause.