Genome complexity: how humans correct errors; dhw confusion (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, November 13, 2020, 07:13 (1472 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: ...we KNOW organisms change their structures IN RESPONSE to new conditions.

DAVID: What major structures change in species adaptation? Nothing major we know of. Yes we also differ about design. Logically God must directly design, rather than putting it off to a secondary independent mechanism by cells.

It’s difficult to distinguish between adaptation and innovation when we consider all the different changes from land-based pre-whale life to marine life. And I have absolutely no idea why a divine 3.8-billion-year-old programme for every single life form, econiche, strategy and natural wonder in the history of life on Earth, or a vast number of individual operations on legs and brains and pelvises, and lectures delivered on nest-building etc., should be regarded as more “logical” than the invention of an intelligent mechanism capable of doing its own designing.

I remain baffled by your reference to “dhw confusion” in the heading of this thread. What do you find confusing about the concept of cellular intelligence as the driver of evolution, compared to the labyrinthine theory of divine programmes and dabbles and every life form with no connection to humans being part of the direct design of humans? Meanwhile, thank you for two more articles which fit in neatly with the concept of bacterial and cellular intelligence:

DAVID: (under “DNA fights off viruses”) Bacteria edit their DNA to self-destruct and save the colony. I would ask how did this developed? Did bacteria learn this on their own or did it happen by design?

They seem to behave just like ants. And yes, I would suggest that just like ants, they design and pass on different ways of surviving different threats.

Under: "Sensory neurons do more than accept":
QUOTE: "The findings suggest that the sensory cortex is not just sensory, as previously thought. Instead of responding only to stimuli around us, Dr. Maravall's study suggests that the sensory neurons are also involved in processing the meaning of the stimuli, and planning the subsequent behavioural responses."

Wow, we have cells processing information and planning what to do with it. Sounds like intelligence to me.