Paul Davies: A Darwin skeptic confesses (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, March 21, 2020, 13:13 (1709 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: "From the Nobel Prize winning geneticist Barbara McClintock in the 1950s to the work of biologist James Shapiro recently retired from the University of Chicago, evidence is mounting that cells possess some level of cognitive ability allowing them to monitor their environments, detect potential danger, and alter their genomes in intentional ways to respond to environmental challenge. It is not clear how they do this, but it does speak to the possibility of some sort of mind at work in the evolutionary process. If this proves to be true, Darwinian evolution will quickly go the way of the dinosaur."

DAVID: Our difference in looking at the bolded proof is I see the words 'mind at work', as the key part of the quote, indicating God designed everything and is still at work.

dhw: I have no problem accepting the logic of the design argument. Now please take off your blinkers and look at the whole paragraph you have just quoted.

DAVID: I know the entire quote and what possibility is raised is that a mind is at work as a result of the discussion. The obvious odds are 50/50, but only one possibility is correct. I've made my choice. And the author says: 'if true Darwin is gone". He's on my side, and he was quoted by the ID website with enthusiasm. All depends on your mindset how he is interpreted! Your blinkers are showing! One final point: McClintock and Shapiro were not allowed to keep their careers if God comes into view.

Robert Shedinger is on your side on the subject of design, and I have never disputed the logic of the design argument. He is on my side on the subject of the intelligent cell, which you dispute but which you have completely ignored. Please acknowledge.