Natures wonders: ants farm fungus for food (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, April 14, 2017, 15:25 (2778 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:Great. There is virtually no environmental problem a bacterium can’t solve. So at last we have brained organisms (which include ants) capable of solving virtually all the problems posed by the environment, and it is only bacteria that need to have been preprogrammed 3.8 billion years ago or personally instructed by your God. Thank you for this massive concession to animal intelligence.

You didn't note this comment by me: "Ant planning ( they have brains) with or without God's help? Hard to know for sure." Yes ants have a 'mound mind' and bees have a 'hive mind'. Organized societal controls.

Dhw (under “RNA control of genes”): My post pointed out that all the basic needs you had listed are shared by humans. I did not equate basterial lifestyle with ours, as should be clear from the passage you have quoted. The fact that some organisms lead simpler lives than others does not mean your God has had to preprogramme or personally direct every single decision they make. However, taken to its logical conclusion, your argument can be applied to every form of life. Perhaps we are all variations of the Stepford wives and don’t know it.
DAVID: You cannot get around the fact that seemingly intelligent activity can be the result of intelligent controls offered by well-designed DNA.

So it is quite possible that you and I are a form of Stepford wife.

Yeah, with copious free will, or haven't you noticed. You jumped the discussion from bacterial lifestyle to human lifestyle, which is an effective debate trick, but that is all it is.