Consciousness; research says insects have it (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, July 10, 2016, 00:01 (2846 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: But still you refuse to commit yourself to the possibility that insects are capable of intelligent design. Yes, you are being coy. And presumably you still stand by your claim that God personally designed or preprogrammed the weaverbird's nest in order to ensure that life went on so that humans could eventually walk the Earth.-The weaver bird nest and humans are not closely connected in the scheme of things though you constantly try to equate them. The variety in the microcosms of life provides energy for living things to continue to evolve, no more than that. The weaverbird nest is part of God's liking of complexity and creating patterns of complexity. 
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> DAVID: Why the concept of different levels and degrees? Why can't the effect of God's consciousness be everywhere through the quantum level of reality, where He probably is hiding?
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> dhw: Already you can't make up your mind whether it's God's consciousness or the effects of his consciousness that are present everywhere and in everything.-You are just slicing and dicing the meaning of God's consciousness. If He works through quantum levels of reality, He is into and affecting everything.