Teleology & evolution: Stephen Talbott's take (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, June 19, 2016, 15:12 (3079 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: There is no glossing over on my part. The difference between us lies in your refusal to accept the possibility of cellular intelligence. I have acknowledged a hundred times that your God MAY have created it, but you would not accept it even if I said categorically that your God MUST have created it.-I know that is as close as you can get to recognizing intelligent design, which results in cells that look intelligent.-> dhw; As far as your biologic training is concerned, it may have taught you that cells are automatons, but please don't tell me it taught you that your God provided the first cells with multiple choice programmes to be passed on through countless generations of organisms and countless environmental changes, to produce every innovation and natural wonder in the history of evolution (apart from when he dabbled). Do you truly find this imagining less “wild” than the possibility that what looks intelligent might actually be intelligent?-We look at Shapiro's bacteria only from outside and we see intelligent responses. After that all we have interpretation. I'll stay with mine that they are designed to react intelligently to stimuli.