Natures wonders: giraffe circulatory system (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 13:44 (3067 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: We have long, long, long ago rejected Darwin's random mutations and gradualism, and even his “bulldog” Huxley complained about his dogmatic refusal to accept the possibility of saltations. More dead-horse-flogging. I agree that the choice is between chance and design, but the intelligent cell hypothesis is not a third way - it is a different form of design from your 3.8-billion-year computer programme and/or dabbling, for which there is no trace of evidence. - DAVID: Of course we are working from the results of an evolutionary process that we really do not understand. Each of us has no evidence, but that is where faith takes over for some of us. And your intelligent cell has to plan for the giraffe saltation. A faith position to me. - Agreed. But (a) we can stop flogging the dead horse of Darwin's gradualism, and (b) faith or no faith, we can stop pretending that design only means hypothetical divine preprogramming and/or dabbling, when it can also mean the inventiveness of hypothetical cellular intelligence, possibly designed by your God.