Cell complexity: talking through microtubules (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 10, 2018, 18:18 (2168 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Obviously intelligence is involved. Cells are so complex they must have a designer. That is where the intelligence comes from.

dhw: Two separate issues here: 1) Do cells have their own autonomous intelligence? 2) If they do, where did it come from? Your complexity = design argument is a powerful one. I hope you are now beginning to acknowledge that the case for cellular intelligence is becoming increasingly powerful!

DAVID: We agree they certainly act intelligently. That is because of their intelligent design. Your view and my view are possible, but it is obvious the complexity of their responses to stimuli requires a designer.

dhw: This is excellent news. Since you agree that my basic premise of autonomous cellular intelligence is possible, and you have already agreed that you can find no flaw in the logical hypothesis I have built on it, clearly you now agree that your God might possibly have built an autonomous inventive mechanism through which evolution progressed in the higgledy-piggledy manner we can all observe (though we must allow for the occasional dabble).

Nice attempt at peace. We're back to God's IM which is possible with basic guidelines so that He remains in control of evolution to produce humans.