Convergence or divergence? (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, September 09, 2013, 17:49 (4093 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: You seem to be suggesting that your God preprogrammed six different sets of cells to produce six different types of eye.-DAVID: You are assuming too much. DNA has the ability to solve problems, such as producing useful sight, and in different organisms, depending on their environment, produces different results. My view of God is that He does not intervene much.-I am not assuming anything. I'm trying to understand why you think the ability to solve problems, invent useful organs, adapt to different environments and different challenges, shows that the cells and cell communities concerned have no intelligence of their own. -dhw: ...your only alternative is to believe that six different sets of cells acted independently and intelligently, whether God created their intelligence or not.-DAVID: Again, no. God put information into the DNA so it can take needed action. The intelligence is at the level of God. The new epigenetic findings show this.-I suspect that this does not mean quite what it says. Do new epigenetic findings really show that God put information into DNA? Or could it be that "you are assuming too much", and in fact new epigenetic findings only show that DNA acts intelligently?