Humans, Dogs and oxytocin (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, September 25, 2015, 18:23 (3346 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I am not giving God odds. I am giving odds against your interpretation of your God's methods and intentions. You are obviously aware of the irrationality of such a scenario, because that is the point at which you tell me to stop worrying about the details! -I'm not irrational about God. He might be able to doc anything He wants. You are the doubting one, but then you are agnostic, and full of doubt.-> dhw: So the bookies can decide the odds: the nest specially designed by God as part of his plan for humans versus the nest designed and engineered by the weaverbird using its own intelligence (perhaps God-given) for its own purposes.-Religious faith does not depend on bookies.-> DAVID: But I am not worried. I know that bacteria follow intelligent information in their responses to stimuli.
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> dhw: Ah, a subtle change in the use of “worry”! So let me rephrase the deal. If I were to stop asking you to fill the gaps in your preprogramming, dabbling, guiding, anthropocentric view of evolution, would you stop asking me to fill the gaps in my view of evolution directed by cellular intelligence?-I'll stop if you quit using it and we'll move on. You haven't commented on the article which covers the entangled, but purposeful mess of mechanisms in humans that controls blood pressure. How does Darwinian evolution figure out how to provide the interlocking, coordinated and circular feedback mechanisms?