More about how evolution works: look at the video (Evolution)

by David Turell , Monday, October 19, 2015, 18:56 (3321 days ago) @ dhw

David: intelligence is everywhere, in the intelligent information in living organisms' cells to the intelligence in myriad brains of various types from C. elegans to humans. And you want it to just sort of evolve 'inexplicably'. That means you can't explain it, but it gets rid of the problem of God. More meat please. See my Romansh/ Ed Fesser entry of today. By the way he originated as an atheist.[/i]
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> dhw: What do you mean “it gets rid of the problem of God”? God is not the default position. You want an inexplicable intelligence called God to just sort of be there - “that means you can't explain it, but it gets rid of the problem” of how life and intelligence arose.-I know He isn't the 'default'. But He supplies the information which is everywhere in biology. You need a thinking mind the create the underlying planning information in DNA and its modifying layers.
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> David's comment [re the article we were discussing]: Such clear thinking!
> dhw: Yes indeed. It's only faith that can dispense with clear thinking.
> DAVID: Faith totally clears up the mystery, solves all.
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> dhw: Precisely. You can have faith in an inexplicable power called God, or you can have faith in an inexplicable evolution of intelligence in matter, and each faith “totally clears up the mystery”.-This comment does not clear up your acceptance of first cause, nor does it override the issue of information which must come from a planning mind.