Logic and evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, July 23, 2016, 14:56 (3044 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: You seem to think that Shapiro only ever said one thing about cells. Here for the umpteenth time is something else he says about cells: “Living cells and organisms are cognitive (sentient) entities that act and interact purposefully to ensure survival, growth and proliferation. They possess corresponding sensory, communication, information-processing, and decision-making capabilities.” (p. 143, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century). -Remember I have the right to reach my own interpretations of his statements. He follows that sentence with : "cells are built to evolve; they have the ability to alter their hereditary characteristics through well-described natural genetic engineering and epigenetic processes as well as by cell mergers." This is my 'built-in drive to complexity. Only a planning mind could have created what he is describing. -> dhw: Please don't tell me that by cognitive, sentient, purposeful, decision-making etc., he actually means automatically obeying God's instructions. -Just following God's implanted instructions.
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> DAVID: I would note that cells can only react with their available molecular reactions that are onboard, which in your view may well be God given, and I agree.
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> dhw: My view is that their autonomous intelligence may well be God-given (50/50), and I would not define intelligence as “their available molecular reactions”.-But that is the only evidence we have from protein analysis of cells. Are you invoking panpsychism again?