Different in degree or kind: our hands (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, March 13, 2016, 18:12 (3177 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I think you are really agreeing with me. If God's intelligence is within the birds, He is showing them how to do it through that mechanism. They are not doing it independently.
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> dhw: BBella will no doubt answer for herself, but I really can't see how you can interpret “making every living thing innovative in their own way” and “the inventive nature of nature itself to create whatever is created” as meaning preprogrammed 3.8 billion years ago or personally instructed by the individual mind you call God. There is a stark theistic choice here: either God gave organisms the intelligence to do their own inventing, or he did it for them.-If you have looked at the knots, which I have supplied, I cannot believe the birds invented them. Yes an argument from incredulity. It involved complex knots using beak and feet in coordination. The authors of Nature's IQ agree with me, so I have backing from those who see purpose and guidance in evolution.