Logic and evolution: Darwinism misstatements (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 14:32 (1893 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: An essay by a philosopher:
https://www.mercatornet.com/features/view/im-with-stupid/22866

QUOTE: "I am not one of those (actually there are very few) who believe that natural selection does not explain anything. Yet the godlike properties attributed to this mechanism are more than a little bit difficult to credit.”

dhw: The article goes on at length to talk about stupidity, and there could hardly be a more stupid statement than this one from Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion: “Natural selection not only explains the whole of life; it also raises our consciousness to the power of science to explain how organized complexity can emerge from simple beginnings without any deliberate guidance.”

As we have reiterated over and over again on this forum, natural selection only explains why what exists either does or does not survive. It does not even begin to explain how what exists comes into existence. Darwin’s theory (disregarding the actual origin of life) was random mutations, which means that “organized complexity” is produced by chance. David’s theory is that it is specially and individually designed by his God. I propose that it is designed by cellular intelligence, the origin of which remains an open question, one possible answer
being what the agnostic Darwin himself called the Creator.

Agreed