Theoretical origin of life; lipid containers (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, May 03, 2019, 19:19 (1819 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: My theories are my own developed from reading thousands of articles and close to 200 books. Your question about authors who support my thoughts is exactly the issue I am raising. I don't care who concludes what I conclude. Subtracting Darwin bias is easy as the author above relates. Do you develop an idea and then go to the internet to find who might support you?

dhw: You dismiss as “pure speculation” the proposal that the “massively complex genome” which controls “all the evolutionary processes” might be guided by cellular intelligence, and yet you claim that in proposing an undiscovered 3.8-billion-year-old programme for every undabbled bacterial action, evolutionary innovation, econiche, lifestyle and natural wonder in life’s history – all specially designed to enable organisms to eat or not eat one another until your God specially designed the only thing he wanted to design – you ”try to base every theory on the scientific facts”, and you start with “what science shows us as established”. I would like to know what scientific facts and established truths your proposal is based on. You are happy to quote Adler (anthropocentrism) and Behe (design) in support of individual aspects of your hypothesis, and I am happy to quote Margulis, McClintock and Shapiro in support of aspects of mine, but I really don’t know why the other aspects of your proposal should be considered any more scientific or any less speculative than mine. I was merely wondering whether there are ANY scientists who support yours.

I've admitted that my proposals as to how God guides evolution are speculations. From Adler certainly the issue of why humans are here is a major point. Behe is different. He firmly supports the need for a mind to design evolution and for me has totally demolished Darwin except for common descent. As for cellular reactions which I have studied and understand, they all have the regular appearance of automaticity. There is no proof here is intelligence guiding them. Intelligent instructions are all that is required. The only evidence of planning intelligence is in humans. As to your quoting M,M,S, and A, just as I'm quoting opinion that is all either of us has. I've gone beyond reasonable doubt. Have you?