More "miscellany" (General)

by dhw, Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 09:15 (766 days ago) @ David Turell

Evolution: more convergence (Introduction)

DAVID: Convergence is strong designer evidence.

dhw: Convergence can also be seen as strong evidence that intelligent organisms of all kinds will sometimes design the same solutions to the same problems.

DAVID: So you believe chance designs can look exactly the same or do all organisms luckily introduce the same new designs?

How do you extrapolate “chance” designs from my proposal that intelligent minds are quite likely to come up with the same solutions to the same problems?

How did sex pop up?

The rest of your post goes over ground already covered on the thread relating to your theory of evolution – in particular the fact that you appear to have backtracked on your earlier renunciation of your “one and only purpose” theory, as well as repeating your constant backtrack on the subject of your God’s thought patterns, emotions and logic, which you agree may be similar to ours, but which you say are not similar to ours if they go against your personal vision of God. I’ll just answer one of your comments:

DAVID: Again you have raised the possibility of new major evolution. Currently the endpoint is the production of humans. Our improbability raises major theological and philosophical issues.

Thank you for inserting the word “currently”. Yes, we are the last species to have evolved so far. No one can prophesy what species will exist a million years from now. The improbability of life, consciousness, cellular complexity, and every living creature you can think of raises major theological and philosophical issues. However, our uniqueness – which I acknowledge – does not mean that every single life form was individually designed, or that it was designed as part of the goal of producing humans or, as you put it in this post, as “preparation for humans”. See the other thread for a showdown over your backtracking.


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