Bacteria, God & Double Standards (Evolution)

by David Turell , Monday, July 06, 2015, 14:39 (3426 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: As with God, absolute proof is impossible, because we can never enter the “mind” of a bacterium (if it has a mind).-I keep repeating, ad nauseum, that if the bacteria has a complete play book of automatic responses, one cannot tell the difference between thinking bacteria and fully programmed bacteria with intelligently given information in their DNA. Each postulate is equally likely. And so far each response mechanism studied is described in automatic biochemical terms.-> dhw: Experts tell us that bacteria communicate with one another, form communities, work out strategies, take decisions...all of which require some thought and planning. How can you possibly know that the experts are “absolutely wrong”?-It is theirs' and your opinion that these strategies and decisions require 'some thought'. All can also be fully explained as automatic responses. No one of us is inside a bacterium to tell the difference.