Biological complexity: one receptor, two T cells (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, August 31, 2016, 13:06 (3006 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: I agree that all such mechanisms must develop by saltation, and I find that all these complexities in themselves stretch credulity! All the miracles of life, of consciousness, of reproduction, of evolution, of oak trees growing from acorns, of ants building cities, of weaverbirds tying knots, of cell communities cooperating to protect themselves and one another…they are all sources of wonderment. How did they originate? Nobody knows. You explain everything as the work of some unknown, unknowable power with a sourceless mind and boundless power and knowledge, whose very existence stretches credulity. There is NO explanation that does not stretch credulity.-DAVID: Why doesn't your incredulity about life forms and styles lead you to accept a mind must be behind this to explain the enormous complexity? It can only be chance or design, no third way.-Because all explanations stretch my credulity. That is the agnostic's dilemma.