More "miscellany" (General)

by David Turell @, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 18:13 (681 days ago) @ dhw

New cell

DAVID: You just can't give up your illogical view that your god must have human emotions.

dhw: Not “must”, but might – as you have agreed – and there is nothing illogical in the possibility that the possible creator of all things might wish to endow humans with some of his own thought patterns and emotions, since he could hardly have created them without knowing what they were.

Still insisting on a humanized God.


Sturdy bird nests

DAVID: Animal thought processes are in God-given brains which allow them to have purposeful actions but not conceptualization as we have. They cannot envision new survival techniques.

dhw: You are deliberately choosing terms that denote abstract thinking (“conceptualization”, “envision”), whereas it is obvious that survival techniques are created as direct responses to immediate, concrete situations. Every kind of nest would have been built originally by birds working out how to use the existing properties of the materials available to them. I find it very hard to believe that every species of bird was provided with an instruction manual on how to build its nest.

I know.


Biomimetics

QUOTE: The seed pod of the maple tree helps design better drone:

DAVID: the original designer is much better than we are.

dhw: Again, I find it hard to understand why your God would have specially designed the seed pod of the maple tree if his one and only aim was to design H. sapiens and our food. But I have no difficulty understanding alternative theistic theories, e.g. your God’s enjoyment of creation, or his giving cells the autonomous intelligence with which to design their own methods of survival…

God gave the organisms many abilities for survival. Survival is required for evolution to advance.


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