Bacterial motors carefully studied (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, April 04, 2016, 18:08 (3154 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw; You believe your God gave humans the intelligence to make their own decisions. So why could he not have done the same with other organisms? (Some scientists tell us they do have such intelligence, but you prefer to dismiss their findings.)-You forget human intelligence is so different from animal intelligence. We can reason and plan. Can animals to any important degree? No.
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> dhw: Even humans have to combine conceptualization with trial and error when they create something new. Nobody knows to what extent other organisms have originally achieved their wonders in the same way.-Yes, we do not know the extent of animal advanced planning. It doesn't seem to be much.-> 
> dhw: Perhaps because instead of starting out with the purpose of creating humans, he started out with the purpose of seeing what would happen if he set evolution in motion. You don't like to speculate on why he would have created humans, but whatever the reason, it can be applied to the rest of “creation”. Possibly as an entertainment to relieve his eternal boredom.-Again interpreting God's mind, while I shouldn't. I feel He wanted to create a thinking being to respond to Him, which we have done. We think like He does, only to a much less degree. Remember we are made in His image, at the mental level.