Biological complexity:how toxoplasmosis parastizes (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, December 01, 2016, 13:05 (2696 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: If you can find the intelligence you think your version of God put onboard then you win! [...]

dhw: [...] If you can find the 3.8-billion-year computer programme or a signed statement from God that he dabbles, then you win! But of course those would be absolute proof, which is impossible, whereas you will not even consider my hypothesis until I can provide absolute proof, which is impossible. That’s what we call double standards.

DAVID: Not so fast. You are sitting atop your picket fence which looks down on two sides, neither of which you accept. That is your double standard of disbelief. I am not forbidden to make a choice, and have. Just as you reject both sides, I've rejected one!

You are misrepresenting both my position and the meaning of double standards! Firstly, I do not have disbelief, and I do not reject both sides. I am an agnostic. That means I neither believe nor disbelieve in God. In terms of how evolution works, I offer a theistic hypothesis which I actually find more convincing than your own, though I would not go so far as to call it a belief. As regards double standards, although I accept the possibility of God’s existence, you accuse me of wanting absolute proof, which is impossible. However, you refuse even to consider the possibility of cellular intelligence without absolute proof, which is also impossible. Your hypothesis does not require absolute proof, but mine does. Double standards.