Biological complexity: bacteria use electrical signals (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, March 18, 2016, 16:31 (3172 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: You have admitted that your argument is based on incredulity, so please don't tell us that these complexities “cannot have been invented by existing organisms”. You simply cannot believe they were. - DAVID: With good reason. Their brains are too simple to be so inventive. - dhw: Man is so sure of his dominion
That he states as fact his mere opinion.
(New Taunton proverb) - DAVID: Only when backed by facts, 
Which IM conjecture lacks.
(Texan two-gun assertion) - dhw: I ain't denyin' my IM hypothesis is simply conjecture.
So's your insistence that weavers can't think. End of lecture.
(Put your guns away) - DAVID: Bird brains are bird brains
Only tiny thoughts entrain
(I remain on target) - dhw: Bird thoughts may seem tiny
To great big thinking you,
But they're what get the birdies doing
All that birdies do.
(I think you're aiming at your foot) - DAVID: Their tiny brains run simple lives
My thoughts about them still survive
Lots of patience to sit and incubate
But you think their thoughts are just first rate
(Not the foot but your brain) - We see the nests and flights of these dear birds,
So wonderful we really can't ignore them.
I say they work these things out for themselves;
You say their God does all the thinking for them,
Because - strange logic - ever since life began,
The nests and flights were needed to make man!
(So stop waving your guns around, or you'll do yourself a mischief.)