Plant immunity; more discoveries (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, August 08, 2020, 11:31 (1567 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: "All land plants have LysM receptors that ensure detection of various microbial signals, but how a plant decides to mount a symbiotic or an immune response towards an incoming microbe is unknown.

DAVID: I again assume these mechanisms were designed when these plants evolved to protect them for survival. If an attempt is made to survive by chance arrival of protective mechanisms makes no sense. But then again, Darwinism makes no sense.

QUOTE: Plants recognize beneficial microbes and keep harmful ones out….

These plants appear to do exactly what - in your new, Darwinian "error theory" - you think your God does, and what Darwin thinks natural selection does: “mistakes” (mutations) arrive by chance, and your God or Nature selects the beneficial ones (your new theory); and here we have microbes arriving by chance and plants selecting the beneficial ones. I propose that this is a sign of plant (cellular) intelligence. And as your God is the maker of all things, he would have deliberately created their intelligence, just as he would have deliberately created the whole system that provides both beneficial and harmful “mutations” throughout the ever changing history of life on Earth. Intelligent design? Yes, if God exists he would have designed the intelligence which in turn would have designed organismal responses to randomly changing conditions and events.