Natures wonders: social amoeba's immunity (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, March 08, 2016, 18:04 (3180 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Same response. Why can't fine tuning apply to all of the problems we see in explaining how evolution works?-dhw: Not really a response at all, but we can use “fine tuning” if you like. You claim that the "fine tuning" for every single innovation etc. is done by a 3.8-billion-year computer programme passed down from the microscopic first cells etc. etc., as described above, together with all the associated problems described above, but for some reason you do not see why anyone should find such a hypothesis questionable.-DAVID: I understand why you find my stance questionable. You want an exact hypothesis with no loose edges. There is no real proven explanation as to why life started as one-celled organisms and ended up with humans with a giant brain and consciousness. All we see is a series of improvements. We've dismissed chance, you've dismissed design, sort of, but have introduced by the back door an IM that has design capabilities! Talk about questionable.-I don't know what you mean by the “back door”. Since there is no “real proven explanation” of why life has produced such a vast variety of organisms extant and extinct, I don't see why an unproven autonomous inventive mechanism (= the intelligent cell/cell community) - possibly invented by your unproven God - is any more “back door” than an eternal mind (the same unproven God) equipping a few microscopic cells with an unproven 3.8-billion-year computer programme for every single innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder throughout the higgledy-piggledy history of life on Earth, all for the sake of humans. I have many times acknowledged that the creative intelligence of organisms can only be a hypothesis until there is proof, but you actually believe your hypothesis which, since it does not even explain the higgledy-piggledy history, seems to me to be composed of nothing but “loose edges”! But I'm relieved to hear that you understand why I find your version of events questionable. Do you yourself agree that it is questionable?