Cellular intelligence (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, February 11, 2022, 15:45 (798 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: As for Shapiro, and his bacterial studies, the bacterial ability to edit DNA is required to survive their battles as free-living single-celled organisms. What that might translate into in the evolution of higher forms is pure theory.

dhw: It’s an excellent piece of evidence for the theory of cellular intelligence proposed by many scientists past and present, and as you have now informed us, these also include ID-ers.

DAVID: Total distortion of my statement: I'll repeat, cells follow God's designed instructions in their genomes to look and act as if innately intelligent. Pure ID.

dhw: Yet again, you merely repeat your rigid beliefs. Your statement was: “Many Ph.D. folks are in the ID corps. They all accept so-called cell intelligence is from God’s design.” You have also in the past said that lots of ID folk love Shapiro. “Cell intelligence” is the exact opposite of “following instructions” so, once again, please explain how your ID-ers can accept what we call cell intelligence from God’s design if they don’t accept that cell intelligence exists and was designed by God. Conversely, are you quite certain that all your ID-ers espouse the theory that your God has provided instructions for every single development in the history of evolution, including every lifestyle, solution to problems, econiche, natural wonder etc. – apart from those which he popped in to dabble?

ID believes God designed all stages of evolution. Designed cells look and act as if innately intelligent but are simply following intelligently designed instructional information.