Paul Davies: A Darwin skeptic confesses (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, March 22, 2020, 09:26 (1490 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."

dhw: 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.

DAVID: I interpret him as viewing the apparent cell intelligence as strongly suggesting a mind is at work and designed the process. Why do you think ID loudly touted him?

Yes, he does indeed suggest this. And he supports the theory of cellular intelligence, to which you are vehemently opposed and which you completely ignored in your comments. So on the one hand he supports your theory, and on the other he also supports Shapiro’s. Yes or no?