Biological complexity: misfolded protein problems (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, September 10, 2017, 13:50 (2392 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Perfectly designed systems do make mistakes at times, do break down. This is our human experience, and I think that fits what we see in the genome replication at very high speed; occasional errors. By your way of thinking God should not have made the universe so dangerous, but He did.

dhw: I’m afraid my definition of perfection would not include a propensity for making mistakes. For someone who objects to any anthropomorphization of his God, you surprise me by arguing that since we humans make mistakes, so does God. But you have missed my point anyway, which is that your God might have deliberately devised a system that made mistakes. If we apply that approach to humans, we might perhaps agree that if every human behaved “perfectly”, and if there were no mistakes of any kind to be corrected, life might become boringly predictable.

DAVID: I did not say God makes mistakes, you did. He designed the most perfect biological cell division reproduction high speed system could allow. Mechanisms make mistakes. I didn't miss your point.

I am baffled by your logic. Perfect = without mistakes or faults. You say your God’s design of the system was perfect, but the system he designed makes mistakes at times (= is not perfect). So your God’s perfect design is imperfect. Does this mean your God was incapable of a perfect design because the system he created took over and insisted on making mistakes, which meant he had to invent correcting mechanisms which also made mistakes, because not all organisms survive? Ugh, what a whale-like mess! Meanwhile, you have not responded to my point, which would disentangle all this confusion.


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