Genome complexity in embryology (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 02:14 (3498 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: If I had given up, this website would not exist. There is no more logic to the answer that God's intelligence is “first cause” than there is to the answer that cellular intelligence evolved. We have discussed your use of “information” before: one is the information that comes from within, which I would call intelligence, and the other is the information that comes from outside, which is what intelligence processes. The next step is: where did the inside intelligence come from? -Exactly! As life originated (we don't have any direct evidence of 'how'), did it develop its 'intelligence' by hunt-and-peck? By chance? How did the earliest collection of cooperative proteins learn by experience, if it did? Within the collection of these proteins was there any ability to evaluate sensory input, if there was any sensory input. See the 'chicken and egg' problem expressed in my last post of 15 minutes ago.-> 
> dhw: Either wildly inventive organisms are wildly inventive or they are automatons obeying your God's instructions.....but wish you would stop using euphemisms such as “guided” and “directed” to gloss over the fact that this entails preprogramming or direct dabbling. We English cowboys shoot from the hip - none of your fancy twiddles and twirls.-I've admitted to preprogramming or dabbling all along. Guided and directed fit the bill.