Genome complexity: mechanism stopped evolving (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 12, 2016, 00:46 (3118 days ago) @ BBella

Bbella: In the bible story, God spoke directly to his creation and so no requirement of faith/belief was required from him..... So if the first God, then his angels, then his son werent humans and doesnt sound like an all powerful creator God - what were they? The plot thickens: In walks the alien that fits neatly and perfectly into this scenario. What if I am right? Have you ever asked yourselves that?-No, I haven't thought about aliens. And since I accept the OT as partially covering the true history of the Hebrews but not the fanciful stories (i.e., Jonah in the whale) and since I see God as hidden now, I have no problem with my statement that God is concealed and requires faith.
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> > David Again, the playwright in action. I don't believe true process theology takes that specific viewpoint.
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> Bbella: Yes, that is exactly how process theology goes.-Thank you for educating me. I was unclear on the point, not having closely studied it.
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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.
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> > David: Your supposition sounds just like conscious energy from the beginning, not requiring much transformation to accomplish goals!
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> BBella: But he said some of the forms are conscious and some are not. If conscious energy is what was from/in the beginning, then how can there be unconscious forms? From what would conscious energy form the unconscious form from?-I simply think all eternal energy was conscious. I don't think consciousness can appear de novo from nothing. The original energy was conscious.