First multicellularity: algae (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, May 13, 2016, 15:39 (3114 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: It is all chemicals, all automatic.[/i]
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> dhw: But that is the whole point at issue. You claim that all cellular activity (which must include evolutionary innovations and problem-solving) is made up of automatic chemical reactions preprogrammed by your God's instructions (algorithms). Then you claim that we are “still learning” about these....Your approach is just like that of certain atheists who claim that we are still learning (or do not fully understand) how organic matter arose spontaneously from inorganic matter. Both sides have their basic premises, and then put the cart before the horse. -You keep refusing to look at my cart and misinterpret. The chemical algorithms exist and are partially understood, as science progresses in its analysis. God's instructions set up the chemical cascades and feedback loops. Those reactions are all automatic, following no instructions in present time.
 
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> dhw: My proposal of innovation through cellular intelligence is a hypothesis, not a belief. I don't know any more than you do. But in all honesty, I find it vastly more convincing than your own interpretation of evolution's higgledy-piggledy history. My fence-sitting relates to whether there is a God who set it all in motion.-Your proposal that organisms try somehow to improve implies purposeful behavior. In my concept, from my first book, a built-in drive to complexity solves all of our objections. If living organisms are driven to various forms of complexity, it explains the bush of life, the weirdness of whales, and our eventual arrival. Anything that works and can survive, does.