Clever Corvids: using tools (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 10, 2015, 14:17 (3362 days ago) @ dhw

"The net result: The bacteria get a comfy mealybug home, and the bugs get the nutrition they need to live.”[/i]
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> dhw: Once more, huge thanks for sharing these wonders with us. 
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> If these organisms have not worked out their own symbiotic relationship, who or what did? Are you telling me that God preprogrammed the first living cells to ensure that the mealybugs and bacteria would eventually get together? Or he dabbled to make them do it?... You have finally conceded that these organisms may have an independent inventive intelligence of their own, but bacteria, which perform similar miracles of intricate design, have to have direct instructions from your God, because you cannot conceive of any intelligence without a brain. -My position is that God created life. I don't think it arose by chance. The life we see through Natures Wonders shows highly complex arrangements. This means that 'life' as an emergent entity is highly inventive. Somehow through God's guidance. I can go no further, but you want it analyzed to the finest detail, which I cannot do, because God doesn't tell me how He does it.