Bacterial motors carefully studied: Addendum (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 13:22 (3140 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw:If cellular intelligence exists, it is what you call the controls. If ‘dabbles' exist, of course they are rearrangements. The question is how and why your God picks on individual organisms and physically rearranges their genome to produce a nose, a kidney, a wing, or mentally guides them to fly to warmer climes or to tie complicated knots.
DAVID: It is all the process of God-driven evolution. We see evolution start with bacteria and end up with us. Success! Why bother with questions about the roadmap? - Indeed, why bother about anything? However, I am happy and grateful that you have bothered enough to write two fine books on the subject and to spend the last eight years discussing it with me! - DAVID: Our mind is only a small reproduction of the complexity of His mind, a minor reflection of His mind. We are created to respond to Him and relate to him.

dhw: Difficult to respond and relate to someone who deliberately remains hidden, but in any case, why would he create us in order to have us respond and relate to him? Is he lonely? Bored?
DAVID: Apparently He treasures faith. - Or maybe he's saying to himself: “Why bother?”