Shedding Light On How Cells Communicate (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 17, 2012, 15:10 (4390 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: 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: 
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> 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.
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> 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.-As for 1) I'm in agreement that a Creator can feel what we feel, but his reactions may differ. We do not know.-Your 2) is a problem for me: Nature in its totality and in the progress of evolution arrived at US. That is not impersonal and we are self-aware. As Paul Davies has pointed out in his famous quote, that is a fact of tremendous significance.