More Denton: A new book (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, February 28, 2016, 15:27 (3191 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I don't know why you've changed autonomous to independent, but if something simply follows instructions, it is neither autonomous nor independent. “Pre-planned instructions” = your 3.8-billion-year computer programme, so you are only muddying the waters when you equate it with an “independent IM”. Nor do I know why you should consider such a mechanism to be any more of a fairy tale than a fixed programme for the whole of evolution, but I presume you will not deny that if God can create such a programme, he is also capable of creating the AUTONOMOUS mechanism I have described above.-To my view autonomous and independent IM's are the same if God programs them with his instructions onboard. It autonomously runs to produce the results He wants, or since it is pre-programmed it runs independently to serve his purpose.