Biological complexity:how toxoplasmosis parastizes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 19:16 (2916 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I like to hear your theological theories benighted as they often are.

dhw: As for the weaverbird, so too for the toxy. The theory: your God gave life to the first cells, and with life he gave them an intelligence that enabled them to work out their own ways of coping with (= adaptation) AND exploiting (= innovation) the changing environmental conditions that all the different regions of the Earth have undergone. This explains why, over thousands of millions of years, so many species and so many natural wonders have come and, in most cases, gone. Occasionally, he may have intervened to change the course of the great ongoing spectacle.

Benighted? Yes, of course. None of us know how life originated and diversified. And if there is a God, none of us know what he is like or how he works. We CAN only theorize.

If we can find the intelligence you think your version of God put onboard then you win! But some of us can think we know how He works by looking at his works!