Humans, Dogs and oxytocin (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 24, 2015, 18:06 (3347 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Thank you for your very helpful answer. May I follow your example? You can't prove your belief that God guided evolution through divine preprogramming or divine dabbling or some other unknown form of guidance, and I view as enormous the odds against your proposal that God preprogrammed the weaverbird's nest from the beginning, or subsequently “dabbled”, as part of his plan to produce humans.-OOPS! How do you give God odds? As you try to be a theist in your way of analysis, remember, it might be true that God can do anything He wants, as the religions suggest. Your claimed theistic hat is very askew.-> dhw: But then neither can I prove my autonomous inventive intelligence hypothesis (not a conclusion, but a possibly theistic explanation of evolutionary innovation). And so if I cease to worry about details such as divine preprogramming and dabbling and anthropocentrism, will you cease to worry about details such as bacterial intelligence?-But I am not worried. I know that bacteria follow intelligent information in their responses to stimuli.