Different in degree or kind (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 12:33 (4022 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: So everything formic is either preprogrammed or divinely dabbled. Let's confine ourselves to ants, then, and forget about the other billions of species and all their problems. There are believed to be about 20,000 species of ant, which live in all kinds of environments, in all kinds of nests, in tiny colonies, in vast colonies, all presumably facing a variety of problems. According to you, God preprogrammed the first living cells with plans for each of these 20,000 species to evolve, and to cope with every different environment and every kind of problem. But not only did he preprogramme every response to every eventuality ... he even programmed two or three choices of response! And what's more, because ants are automatons, they don't even have the wherewithal to make a choice. It just sort of happens. And the ones which just sort of happen to make the wrong choice die. If he didn't preprogramme all the species and all the means of coping with all the different environments and all the different problems, and coming up with one out of all the different choices, he actually intervened personally. You can almost hear Chuck chuckling.-That is a fairly accurate statement of my suppositions. The reason Chuck would chuckle is he invented a supposition that is falling apart, because he didn't have the knowledge to know any better. Completely eliminate him from your thinking, start fresh and you will end up like I am, accepting the fact that we evolved, but we are still learning how it was done and we are discovering amazing complexity and an intricate coding system filled with enormous amounts of information, the source of which we must guess at. Some of us finally make a choice even if our knowledge is incomplete, but the trend is toward the discovery of even more complex complexity, and further and further from Darwin. The trend will destroy Darwinism