Chimp vs. human brain (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 00:13 (4156 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Yes, we are unique, but even if we ignore the chance hypothesis, our presence could derive from any one of the three alternative hypotheses I offered you (God having fun, God experimenting, God leaving the mechanism to sort itself out), each of which is just as likely/unlikely as your single hypothesis that this was God's plan from the beginning. The latter in fact leads to a major question, which I will ask you next time if you really do insist on this single, narrow viewpoint!-The whole history we see smells of purpose and nothing else. An inorganic universe creating consciousness. No way. A universe that appears and the mathematician/cosmologists admit it was an origin. What is the first cause? Life appears, only God knows how; then multicellularity, when baceria have continued successfully since the beginning. The Cambrian Explosion with no evolutionary precursors. You know the drill.