Darwin & Wallace (Evolution)

by David Turell , Sunday, October 11, 2015, 14:37 (3329 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: We can't know the purpose of humans because of what you call "the silliness of trying to read God's mind", but we do know the purpose of every other form of life, extant and extinct, from bacteria to trilobites, dinosaurs, mosquitoes, the duck-billed platypus, the weaverbird, and the parasitic wasp: to produce or feed humans. May I ask how we know THEIR purpose without reading God's mind?-I can't read His mind but I can see His obvious purpose: US
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> DAVID: We are back to 50/50 here in a sense as in bacterial reactions. Pre-planning is seen in the genes, no question. From the outside it well can look like an IM working.
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> dhw: Alternative version: an autonomous intelligence is seen in the genes, no question. From the outside it well can look like pre-planning.-When an autonomous intelligence made the genes what do you expect!