Cell complexity: talking through microtubules (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, May 11, 2018, 15:04 (2389 days ago) @ dhw

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).

DAVID: 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.

dhw: You wrote that your view and my view were possible. As you very well know, your view is an IM “with basic guidelines” and my view is an autonomous IM, based on cellular intelligence. You have said that my view is possible, or is this yet another case of x on a Wednesday and y on a Thursday? The theistic version of my hypothesis allows for dabbling, which could apply to humans. My major objections to your hypothesis are firstly your insistence that every single innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder had to be individually dabbled or preprogrammed by your God, and secondly that all of them were somehow geared to the production of the sapiens brain.

I'll stick to humans as the supreme goal of God's evolution.