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

by dhw, Thursday, November 05, 2015, 19:37 (3304 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Of course there is no logical explanation at a natural level. That is why the supernatural is required.
dhw: Nothing is “required”. If there is no logical explanation, one can keep an open mind. But as always I must remind you that the intelligent cell hypothesis does not exclude your God. 
DAVID: Wouldn't you like a rational explanation? An open mind to no conclusions. 

We would all like a rational explanation, but there isn't one. Since when was the supernatural a rational explanation? Since when was faith rational? And of course an open mind has no conclusions. I suspect that considerably more damage is done by those who have reached conclusions than by those who have not. (Present company not included, of course!)-dhw: I presume nothing. I offer cellular cooperation as an alternative hypothesis to your all-encompassing computer programme.... Simply invoking a supernatural intelligence does not solve the problem of producing it from first-cause energy. 

DAVID: If it always existed, as something must have, it is a fine answer.-I agree that something must always have existed, and I agree that energy and matter make for a “fine” answer. And intelligence that evolved is no less “fine” and no more irrational than intelligence that has simply existed for ever.-dhw: Or rather know-nothingism. Why pretend you know something you can't possibly know? That is why you have to resort to faith.
DAVID: Inference to best solution.
dhw: Best by what criteria? Stick to faith!
DAVID: But that is what Darwin did with his so-called theory!-Why “so-called”? It IS a theory, but you yourself have agreed that there is enough scientific evidence for you to believe its basic tenet, which is common descent. You have agreed many times, however, that belief in the supernatural requires more than scientific evidence, so why compare the two? (That is not to denigrate your faith. Like you, I do not accept that science is the only path to truth.)