A new synthesis: Four dimensions of Evolution (Evolution)

by dhw, Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 22:18 (3264 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: What you see as holes, simply I don't, so we are stuck with the difference.

dhw: If there are aspects of a theory you don't understand (such as how divine planning/dabbling works, or why millions of species and lifestyles and wonders are necessary for the production of one species), I would suggest that not seeing holes is the result of closing your eyes!
DAVID: Answered in my previous entry. My interpretation of the arrival of humans covers your holes.-Ah, so you do know how God's 3.8-billion-year programme for all innovations, lifestyles and natural wonders works, and you do know why all these extinct and extant organisms and wonders were/are necessary for the production of one species. It's true that you have offered the balance of nature to provide food for humans as an explanation. But at other times you have admitted you don't know. And it is the aspects of your theory you can't explain that I call holes.-DAVID:Yes a great mystery. We don't understand delayed choice experiments except by invoking the primacy of consciousness.
dhw: And we don't understand toe-stubbing except by invoking the primacy of matter and energy.
DAVID: Neat sidestep. Do you understand the concept of delayed choice experiments?
-I understand that nobody understands why particles behave the way they do, and observation appears to dictate their behaviour. How does that invalidate the fact that matter and energy have been proved over and over again to behave in an utterly predictable manner whether we observe them or not? I am not denying the importance of consciousness, but I am simply pointing out that quantum experiments do not make the quantum world any more real than the world we experience in our everyday lives, regardless of the subjectivity of our perception.