Genome complexity: we survive constant mutations (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, May 14, 2018, 17:22 (2167 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: There are still a few differences between us, but now that you have agreed that groups of cooperative cells (cell communities) created new forms, the gap has certainly narrowed. I would substitute “watched” for “carefully monitored”, and would suggest that if your God exists, he gave organisms an inventive mechanism without guidelines, though always with the proviso that he could dabble when he felt like it. I am delighted to see that in your theistic version of evolution you appear to have dropped the alternative that he equipped the first cells with computer programmes to be passed on for the millions of innovations, lifestyles and natural wonders that he did not dabble, and perhaps we may even agree that humans are special, but that the creation of new forms by the cooperating cell communities was not necessarily geared to the production of the sapiens brain. Or is that asking too much?

DAVID: God has purpose. He desired humans, as I view us a step beyond the rest of evolution. See the video I entered today. We live in the mind of God.

dhw: If God exists, of course he has purpose. I agree that in terms of our consciousness we are a step beyond the rest of evolution. We may even be the result of a special dabble. I just don’t buy the hypotheses that a) every innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder had to be specially designed, and b) that all of them were geared to the production of your brain and mine. The video says nothing about the mind of God. It even suggests that we are the only observers. And frankly I have to admit that I am firmly convinced you exist and would continue to exist even if I popped off tomorrow.

We've been over this before. The bush of life creates the balance of nature which supplies energy for evolution to last a very long time. An energy supply is required to maintain life preserve itself.