cellular controls of protein paths (Evolution)

by dhw, Friday, March 06, 2020, 15:44 (1721 days ago) @ David Turell

David's comment: These molecular processes follow exact information and deliver the proteins automatically exactly where they are required to go. Of course the cells look intelligent to older researcher s from past time, until the automaticity is demonstrated now.

dhw: All of a sudden, current science belongs to past times, does it? Of course the vast majority of our physical processes are automatic. But as your articles have demonstrated over and over again, the cells also take decisions and make adjustments – especially when things go wrong. As you quite rightly tell us, it is 50/50 whether what looks intelligent actually is intelligent. So please stop pretending that 50/50% possible = 100% impossible, and also please stop pretending that there are no modern scientists who advocate cellular intelligence. We agreed not to indulge in name-dropping after I had given you a list of names.

DAVID: When new research shows such automaticity, it is hard not to present it for what it is worth. Science matches forward from past impressions, and my ID scientists are all currently active. As usual I need to comment on the bold. It is intelligent information that runs the cells reactions as the current paper shows.

You have simply ignored what I have written (now bolded). I am not disputing the automaticity of the vast majority of our physical processes. Intelligence is not demonstrated by these automatic actions but by the responses of cells to situations that demand decisions. The fact that your ID scientists are active is totally irrelevant to the question of whether cells are intelligent or not. Time and again you have said that cellular intelligence is a 50/50 possibility, so I repeat: please stop pretending that 50/50% = 100% impossible.

QUOTE: (under “bacterial resistance”): “We don't know exactly how it happens yet, but we think the two bacterial species both 'know' when the other type of cell is there and respond appropriately," said Benjamin Obadia of UC Berkeley.

DAVID: My view is God started life with bacteria and they have been kept around to help us live better in many ways. Protection designed by God.

Why don’t you comment on the obvious sentience of bacteria and their appropriate responses? Bacteria sometimes help and sometimes hinder. If your God designed the protection, it would not be unreasonable to assume that he also designed the danger. Fair enough – perhaps it’s all part of the wonderful spectacle your hidden God may be watching. Just a thought.