More Miscellany: Bechly reappears (General)

by dhw, Friday, June 07, 2024, 11:34 (167 days ago) @ David Turell

The brain: studies on memory

DAVID: God designed the brains' plasticity which mimics autonomy.

dhw: So the brain “runs the show” and “takes its own decisions”, actually means that the brain doesn’t run the show and doesn’t take its own decisions, but God runs the show and takes all the decisions. It’s amazing what one can do with language.

DAVID: No God doesn't run the show. His DNA instructions do it.

dhw: He who issues instructions runs the show. He who issues instructions on decisions makes the decisions. He who says that the brain runs the show and makes the decisions ought to support the theory that the brain runs the show and makes the decisions.

DAVID: My piano teacher taught me to play. I play, she doesn't. God instructed/designed the brain to make decisions. It does following/using His instructions.

Do you decide what you want to play, or has your teacher given you instructions on what you must play? With my theist cap on, I am happy to accept that God may have designed the brain to make decisions. This does not mean that God instructs the brain on what decisions it must take.

Examples of Darwinist thinking: Insect adaptations

DAVID: My hatred is of total misuse of Darwin.

dhw: I still don’t know why “evolution really does repeat itself” constitutes totally overblown Darwin-speak propaganda, but it’s refreshing to hear you defending Darwin against those who “misuse” him.

DAVID: Darwinists constantly subtilty defend his undefendable theory.

dhw: Your hatred of Darwin is abundantly clear when you label his whole theory “undefendable”! Even you support the theory of common descent (with exceptions), and natural selection as an explanation of survival and extinction is pure common sense. The article only attacks the theory of random mutations. And I still don’t know why you think “evolution repeats itself” is “totally overblown Darwin-speak propaganda”!

DAVID: Because you are steeped in it!!

Do you deny that the major thesis (common descent) behind Darwin’s “undefendable” theory is defendable? And please explain why, although you agree that the article criticizes the “randomness” theory (as I do too), you think “evolution repeats itself” is totally overblown Darwin-speak propaganda.