Intelligence & Evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 21:56 (4013 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:You dismiss my statement as wrong but then confirm it, except to insist again that the mechanism for cellular processing, communicating and decision-making is all preprogrammed (whereas I said its origin was unknown). You go on to say that human consciousness and intelligent thought emerges SOMEHOW.......Nobody knows. He says we can learn a lot from cells about chemistry, physics and evolution, and he also says they are sentient, very intelligent beings. (That doesn't, of course, mean they are human!)-It also doesn't mean they can think and plan on their own-> 
> dhw: "Evolutionary programming", however, is a much vaguer concept than your preprogramming of the very first cells with billions of innovations to be passed down through billions of generations. Are you beginning to equivocate? The creation of an intelligent cell capable of innumerable combinations leading to innumerable forms of life could also be called evolutionary programming, it can be attributed to your God, and it allows for his dabbling.-I haven't changed. I've said all along that theistic evolution is either entirely preprogrammed or there is dabbling, and I can't tell which is correct.