Genome complexity: most important article ever! (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, May 14, 2015, 13:31 (3481 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: We both accept the evolutionary process, and I accept the possibility that your God may have started it all, but you DO try to read his mind. The goal, you say, was to produce humans; he did it by preprogramming or by dabbling, to which you have added an inventive mechanism that must also be preprogrammed or dabbled with, because it is not autonomous. So long as you put forward such hypotheses, it seems to me fair enough to examine their reasonableness in the light of what we can observe. You are more than happy to do so when confronted with the hypothesis of the autonomous inventive mechanism! -DAVID: I just look at the astounding result of evolution, us, and that guides my thinking. I have no idea why we should be the result of a natural process. And my thought processes are not one-dimensional. You know all the reasons I think there is a planning mind, the major one being I can not imagine an inorganic universe inventing consciousness. It already had to exist in a prior period.-I have the same problem as you, but have equal difficulty imagining a universal consciousness inventing itself, or simply being there without ever beginning, not to mention preprogramming or specially creating the weaverbird's nest when all it wants to do is create us.