Book review of Nature\'s I.Q. (Evolution)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Saturday, September 12, 2009, 18:25 (5549 days ago) @ David Turell


> > What I find issue with here is how you would determine the difference between the pressure of selection and the driving of DNA. At what point can you say that evolution is happening by one process or the other? To me it seems it creates a chicken and egg scenario. In order for your idea to be tenable, you really need to be able to show that the process of speciation happens without some event to force the hand. 
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> I'm sure there are always challenges; they may not be obviously external but biochemically internal, finding better, more economical ways to do things. For example, our brain uses less energy to produce electricity than in squids.
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> http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17773-brain-cells-slicker-than-we-thought.html-If THAT is true, then we're smarter than the creator. There are some biochemical processes that would give the same outputs with less energy and work. I'd have to dig into Pigliucci's book again, but he went over a few processes that can be designed better by us than by what nature has done. If we can do something--I would say anything--better than the creator, it speaks more for us than for it. -> 
> > I just can't find a teleology for life.
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> My guess is that we were created as a challenge to us. Can we figure out how the creator did it? Where do we get our driving inquisitiveness about everything? Look at me trying to guess where, if anywhere, I am going. )-Who or what then... is doing that willing? (Sorry... had to break that one out again...)

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