Cellular intelligence (Evolution)

by dhw, Friday, February 25, 2022, 11:11 (1000 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: You sticking to your facetious God who hands off design to others.

dhw: Even if you ridicule the possibility that your God – who enjoys creating and is interested in his creations – might find a free-for-all more interesting than a puppet show, it does not alter the fact that you have also ridiculed your own theory as “facetious”.

DAVID: Another misinterpretation.

I asked if you thought your God had preprogrammed deep-sea diving 3.8 billion years ago or had dabbled by performing operations on existing whales, and you dismissed my question as “facetious”. However, you have confirmed that these are the only explanations you can come up with.

Magic embryology

DAVID: You never tell me how your innately intelligent cells developed the ability to think.

Nobody knows how ANY organisms, including ourselves, developed the ability to think, but I have always included the possibility that your God designed the mechanism. I am an agnostic, not an atheist.

“Man-made cell” and “Man-made corona virus” and “sending molecules to proper spots”

Your first comment generally applies to the other two illuminating articles as well:

DAVID: this is a simulated model made up of pick-up parts. So let me ask where does the independent intelligent activity come from? It is obviously built into the parts which know somehow how to work together. This is miraculous. Organic molecules know what to do only when put together properly. Separately they simply lie there as separate parts. Only a designed system fits the question I asked. This degree of design requires a brilliant mind. No other conclusion can be reached.

Yes, somehow cells - just like humans - “know”. And as I have repeatedly agreed, this mystery coupled with the amazing complexity of the design, is one of the strongest arguments for the existence of your God the designer. Where does the "independent intelligent activity" of cells and humans come from?