Natures wonders: making spider silk (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, August 15, 2014, 23:48 (3751 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: You have already strongly defended the idea that certain cell communities can think, invent, and take autonomous decisions without having your God doing the planning and coordination for them,..... So let's try phrasing things slightly differently. You wrote: “A little bit of God in every cell allows Him to control evolution. ....“A little bit of universal intelligence in every cell allows it to control evolution. That makes sense.” ... Once again, you are happy to accept the principle that cells may have intelligence of their own inside them, controlling evolution, so long as we call that intelligence God.- The idea that: "A little bit of universal intelligence in every cell allows it to control evolution. That makes sense.”, does not make sense. Each cell controlled by the universal consciousness which can then be used to advance evolution. The emphasis is NOT on the cell but on the overall planning agent. Individual soldiers on the battlefield do not plan the battle. They participate in the battle as directed by thier leaders. -Once again, each single cell is functional at a very automatic level. Sense a stimulus, pick a reply. The information in the genome is intelligently planned to have the cell function fully and cooperatively with sister cells. 
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> dhw; NB A reminder: I am not asking you to believe this alternative scenario, but only to keep an open mind. We do not know what cells and cell communities are capable of under conditions we have not experienced.-Careful cellular studies would disagree. We have a very clear understanding of how cells function, operate and coooperate at molecular levels. I have provided video descriptions in the past.