Our reality keeps evolving (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, May 23, 2016, 14:57 (3105 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Fair enough. If the universe really did have a beginning ex nihilo, it must have evolved as you say. Whether it is still evolving or simply repeating itself is another matter. As I said, I have no idea. - The experts say it evolved and is still evolving.
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> dhw: But once a mechanism for life and evolution is functioning, how do you know what it is capable of, and how do you know where (theistic version) your God's advanced planning ends and his mechanism takes over? - I have no way of knowing. All of evolution shows organisms of increasing complexity in form and lifestyle. So I propose an internal drive to complexity in the mechanism, which as I have pointed out is not necessarily improvement. - > 
> dhw: Cell communities are “natural”. As plants and other living organisms, they do things you and I cannot do. In certain respects, they are smarter than us. So maybe your God made them that way. Not as machines but as living intelligences.
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> DAVID: Cells are the way they are as the result of intelligent instructions they follow.
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> dhw: As usual, you repeat your belief as if it were a fact. My hypothesis is a maybe, and so is yours. - I regard it as more than a maybe.