Evolution (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, May 17, 2009, 13:22 (5465 days ago) @ David Turell

David: I understand that evolution occurred. There is an agent who is around and active, therefore I am not a deist. I don't think the agent experiments or intervenes, but has set DNA as a production code and RNA as the main agent for adaptation and evolutionary progress. - Thank you for your detailed response. As usual I'm trying to pin things down when I know you prefer not to, but for me this is all part of the search for some kind of identifiable truth, and also for common ground between the different sets of beliefs and non-beliefs. Once the mechanism has been set in motion, BBella's "intelligent matter", or George's chance plus natural laws, could explain how evolution goes on working of its own accord without any outside intervention. But if, as you say, there is an original "agent" which does not experiment or intervene, in what way is it still active? And would the whole process stop if it was not still around?