Insects are sentient: antlion fine sand traps (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, April 03, 2019, 18:12 (2059 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I don't see that natural selection is the force that set up this process. Since antlions must live in the food they trap, unless they could do this from the start, the time taken to have a series of chance lucky mutations would have wiped out the antlion population. Only design fits.

dhw: I agree totally that natural selection explains nothing, I do not accept the hypothesis that this all came about by chance, and I do not see the slightest connection with the hypothesis that your God specially designed this method of trapping prey in order to keep life going until he could specially design the brain of H. sapiens. I suggest that antlions are sentient organisms with the ability to do their own designing.

DAVID: And I think God helped them to act in a sentient manner.

dhw: Perhaps you would like to describe to us how you think your God “helped” them, as opposed to preprogramming them to create the trap 3.8 billion years ago or dabbling with all their individual brains at a particular moment during his 3.5+ billion years of not fulfilling his sole purpose. Special courses, perhaps, at Antlion College?

Pre-programming or dabbling, as usual, are possibilities. Maybe a sand sifting lesson?