Immunity: detecting dangerous bacteria (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, November 20, 2017, 15:19 (2341 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: You wrote that the “immune system cells learn about bacteria by experience, changing its DNA to fit its discoveries”. If cells learn by experience and change their structure, they cannot be automatons, but until now that is what you have insisted they are. Your acknowledgement that cells learn from experience and act according to what they learn makes for a red-letter day in the history of the AgnosticWeb!

DAVID: The immune system is a very specialized protection arrangement. New organisms cannot know in advance what enemy will attack, therefore they are designed to react in the way they do and teach themselves how to identify foreign foes. it is all automatic. I've described this before as a testimony to God's design ability.

dhw: If they can learn by experience, change their own structures to fit in and cope with what they have learned, and even teach themselves, it would be hard to find many more attributes required for autonomous intelligence. You might just as well say your God designed their ability to think for themselves.

What I do say is this mechanism is intelligently designed by God to work automatically.