Bacterial Intelligence? (General)

by dhw, Sunday, February 01, 2015, 19:16 (3581 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: I'm not sure why your ID friends would insist that God didn't give bacteria the ability to direct themselves, but I will take your word for that. How does their opinion invalidate that of Shapiro, Margulis, McClintock, Albrecht-Bühler and Co.? 

DAVID: It is simply a different way of viewing the same observations. The bacteria act very intelligently. No question. When one asks how they do it, the Shapiro interpretation and the ID approach are just as equally reasonable.-Thank you. If you find both approaches equally reasonable, perhaps you will now accept that the hypothesis of an autonomous inventive mechanism (possibly designed by your God) is just as reasonable as the hypothesis that all innovations and peculiar lifestyles were preprogrammed 3.7 billion years ago or are the result of divine dabbling.