Innovation, Speciation: strange DNA finding (Evolution)

by dhw, Saturday, October 19, 2019, 10:13 (1861 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Each of our views are quite clear. But you have to use my God to help the cell committees. Are you sure He did that. No.

dhw: I don’t know what you mean. My proposal is that the cell communities act autonomously, and if God exists, then he designed them to do just that. I am not sure of anything, but I must confess I find this possibility more convincing than your own divine preprogramming/dabbling proposal in which you have a fixed belief.

DAVID: And if God did not give cell communities the information to act autonomously, where did they get the information to do the new designs? Thin air?

If God exists, he would not have given them “information” but the ability to consciously and autonomously process information, communicate with others, take decisions etc., the source of which is unknown in all organisms, including ourselves. Your question simply ignores the agnostic’s dilemma. The ability itself suggests design and hence a designer, but the very concept of an eternal, sourceless, designing mind which can create a universe is just as difficult to believe in as the idea that chance can create organisms with this ability.