Genome complexity: mechanism stopped evolving (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 15:02 (2900 days ago) @ dhw


> 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.
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> dhw: 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.-Spoken like a playwright. What you miss is the obvious requirement of faith, the reason He stays hidden.-> dhw: 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?-Again, the playwright in action. I don't believe true process theology takes that specific viewpoint.
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> 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.
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> dhw: 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.-Your supposition sounds just like conscious energy from the beginning, not requiring much transformation to accomplish goals!