Innovation, Speciation: strange DNA finding (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 29, 2018, 15:42 (1972 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Now in your very imaginative mind you have created a mindless, purposeless lonely God wandering around wondering what to do, and probably wondering what caused Him to be there at all and certainly why He existed. Yet you can't explain the design in life you recognize.

Not mindless – if he exists he IS a mind! Not purposeless, because he gives himself a purpose. Lonely? Why not? Even you, when challenged on the subject of his purpose, speculated that he wants a relationship with us. Why would he want that? What on earth or in heaven that has to do with design I don’t know. We are talking about your God’s purpose for designing life, so now you scurry back to design itself as if that was an issue between us.
The article does raise an interesting question, though, which I’m sure you’d prefer to talk about:
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/mechanosensing-and-mechanotransduction-h...

QUOTES: How that integration is achieved by each specific cell is still not understood. Indeed a lot of the essential aspects of all these issues are still poorly understood.
[…] Whatever the mechanisms that we still don’t understand, it is rather clear that coordinated cell migration and axon growth require not only the amazing structures and integration abilities in each individual cell, but also the cooperation of many different actors: the migrating cell, the ECM, guiding proteins and ligands, intermediate cells, the final target, and probably many other components."

Yes indeed, each individual cell has amazing abilities, and cells cooperate to make bodies function. One might almost be inclined to believe in cellular intelligence. Indeed, some scientists do.

dhw: But now perhaps you’ll tell me why a God who is capable of not knowing what he wants, or of knowing what he wants but having trouble working out how to get it, is incapable of wanting something to keep himself occupied.

I don't know why you are suddenly asking me questions about an image of God that is yours, not mine. I view God as purposeful in everything He does. He is The Creator in religions' concept of Him. I really no nothing more about HIM. He understands the complexity of life He has designed, because He knew how to do it and make it perpetually alive. I don't scurry back to design. Design and God are totally intertwined in any philosophic view of the question whether God exists. Design is why you admit you are agnostic. When you delve into God's personality you are getting back to Adler's wise admonition He is a personage like no other person. He is pure energy and we are material persons who have minds and reason, and are a little similar to Him but no more. When you try to make God a person like us, you are in very murky waters, with guesses and nothing more.