Darwin & Wallace (Evolution)

by dhw, Monday, October 12, 2015, 12:50 (3328 days ago) @ David Turell

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?-DAVID: I can't read His mind but I can see His obvious purpose: US-Ugh, ugh, speak for yourself! Poor old dhw just cannot see why he couldn't get here or enjoy his chocolate without them thar dinosaurs, the weaverbird's nest and the duck-billed platypus.-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.
dhw: Alternative version: an autonomous intelligence is seen in the genes, no question. From the outside it well can look like pre-planning.-DAVID: When an autonomous intelligence made the genes what do you expect!-I don't understand your answer. You say that cells are pre-programmed by God to act automatically, and I suggest that they may have an autonomous intelligence which may have been designed by your God.