Biological complexity: misfolded protein problems (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 14, 2017, 15:59 (2627 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: There are lots of things we do not know about the origin of life and how speciation works. Viruses may also be good guys and help with speciation. They do add to our DNA. God's limits may be dictated by His goals, as those goals might require the way the universe and Earth work. Perfection may not be the solution.

dhw: It is because we don’t know about lots of things that we formulate hypotheses. Yours seem to change from day to day. You now seem to be taking it for granted that God has limits. Not so long ago, he was all-powerful and always in control. Why not acknowledge the possibility (which is all it can be) that what we have IS God’s goal – namely, a massive free-for-all, full of nice and nasty, good and evil, joy and sadness, birth and death, extinction and survival?

Obviously I don't see that your conclusion fits the arrival of H. sapiens, but yours does include free will and the chaos it creates. Birth and death, extinctions are requirements of evolution. Your view of God's limits may be requirements of evolving life as a method of creation. As for my apparent changeability, it is the result of your probing questions, requiring me to explore my own theories and consolidate ideas.