Natures wonders: ants and other insects farm (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 14, 2020, 19:48 (1652 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I am not challenging your belief in God. I'm pointing out what seems to me an extremely far-fetched theory concerning the way he operates – which is based entirely on your assumption that ants and a few million other organisms have no autonomous intelligence of their own, and their seemingly intelligent behaviour had to be preprogrammed 3.8 billion years ago or personally directed by your God.

DAVID: I know how you feel and think. The book 'Nature's I.Q.', from which weaverbird nests appeared here is an example of how the faithful think about God and ow He must step in and help.

dhw: Yes, either by preprogramming 3.8 billion years ago, or by personally dabbling. Since you have him “stepping in”, clearly you regard the nest as a dabble. What might that entail? Courses for weaverbirds? Instructions passed telepathically in Weaverbirdese? A direct demonstration, as God psychokinetically manoeuvres the twigs and knots into position? How else can he “step in”?

Your guess is as good as mine.

DAVID: (under “Subsea microorganisms”): Life is designed to survive anywhere on Earth, but the key is in the design.

dhw: So do you reckon all these life forms were preprogrammed 3.8 billion years ago, or did your God personally dabble them as part of his preparations to directly design H. sapiens? Or could it be that he designed life to survive anywhere on earth by giving organisms their own form of intelligence with which to adapt themselves autonomously to ever changing conditions?

No, He saw to it that life is designed to survive from His instructions in the genome multiple layers of control.