Genome complexity: mechanism stopped evolving (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 12:50 (3119 days ago) @ BBella

DAVID: […] things become more and more clear to me. I'm sorry for your fuzziness.
dhw: Strange. I find the first pattern somewhat less fuzzy than the second.-DAVID: And I still think God would not have bothered with all this without keeping an eye on it to be sure it worked out like He intended. All inventors have purposes in mind.-I had suggested he kept an eye on it because maybe he invented it precisely in order to keep an eye on it - i.e. as the hidden audience, the intention being an enjoyably unpredictable spectacle (see below), though he could always step in. You agree that he's hidden, but you don't like him being an audience - he apparently wants a relationship and that, mysteriously, is why he hides.-BBELLA: But God would not be your common inventor as we know inventors to be. It seems to me, if there were an all wise God, who in the beginning created all that IS and then rested from his works and let be, as the scriptures testify, I would think that kind of God would have no need to fiddle, as he would have already implanted every need, variation and ability needed into All That IS. Not to say, as the scriptures also testify, he didn't fiddle with the plans of man.-Maybe he's not all wise. Maybe he's a process God, learning as he goes. Wouldn't it be incredibly boring to know everything? Do you enjoy novels, plays, films whose plot developments and denouement are already obvious from the start?-BBELLA: But as you know, if there was A God in the beginning, what I think is more likely the case, God multiplied and became ALL That IS which explains why ATI is so brilliant! And that simply explains everything except how.-Or maybe there was just energy in the beginning, and energy kept and keeps transforming itself into all the forms we know and don't know, some of them conscious, some of them not. And that would explain why ATI is such a rich mystery, and why we spend so much time vainly trying to grasp the ungraspable.