Plant automatic response to climate change (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, December 31, 2018, 17:48 (2153 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: You don't need to pin me down. It is obvious a bacterium must do everything my body does. Eat, defecate, make proteins, etc. and they have special compartments for each job.

dhw: You seemed to think my reason was to point out that bacteria must have the equivalent of a brain. It was to pursue the idea of microcosm reflecting macrocosm, with the embryo reliving evolution from single cell to current multicellular form, which would seem to confirm common descent. Do you think this is true?

Frankly, I don't see your macrocosm microcosm example. Perhaps I'm missing some cosmic philosophy. All I see is a single cell has to do what my multicellular body does to maintain the state of living. Which means: single cells are highly complex, and if so how did life start if it was by chance? Obviously, no chance.

Transferred from “Divine purposes and methods”:
DAVID: Bacterial intelligence is the intelligent information and instructions in their DNA. I have God as a logical source for it. And as a result I believe that bacteria are totally autonomic.

dhw: If God exists, then of course he is the logical source. He would also be the logical source of the autonomous bacterial intelligence which Shapiro & Co. believe in.

As with my faith, 'belief' is not proof.