Different in degree or kind (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 15:25 (3775 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:If "implanted information" means the ability to make their own decisions and to innovate, then it's the same as saying God gave cells an intelligence of their own. If you mean God implanted the programme for the different adaptations and innovations, i.e. that cells are merely obeying God's instructions, we are back where you started. -That is where I start. Cell information had to come from somewhere. God is the best choice.-> 
> dhw: Implanted information which gives cells the intelligence to do their own inventing, or implanted information which tells cells what to produce? The rest of your post circles round the same question.-I think the information gives them the ability to modify and produce variation. The process does not appear to me to be totally guided, which is why we see so many forms of life, so many life processes, six eyes, etc. But the obvious thrust is to get to conscious humans. Darwin's theory of evolution requires need for change produced though competition in variation. I have never seen the need for us. We were not required by the environment to appear. We were not required by necessity.