Natures wonders: making spider silk (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, August 10, 2014, 19:43 (3756 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw: Can you or can you not imagine your God creating a mechanism capable of reproducing itself, changing its form, and communicating and combining with its fellows to produce an almost infinite variety of forms, while he himself sits back and watches all the weird and wonderful and unpredictable results of his ingenuity? 

DAVID: Yes, exactly the way I imagine the pre-programming process. You are well aware of my thoughts here. I have predicted there could be a hidden genetic code, not yet discovered, which controls a drive to complexity, and may define the complexity.-The question is whether this hidden genetic code contains instructions for all the innovations and Nature's Wonders (which you call evidence of “intricate planning”) preprogrammed - and hence surely predictable - by your God into the first living cells, or it contains the sentience, cognition, communicative skills, inventiveness and intelligence that have enabled cell communities to devise their own unpredictable innovations, as autonomous agents and not automata. The outcome of course is the same for both hypotheses. It's bold of you to predict that science will uncover God's hidden programme for making spider silk. I may as well predict that science will uncover evidence that spiders invented spider silk.