Why bother with God? (General)

by David Turell , Sunday, May 22, 2011, 22:59 (4932 days ago) @ xeno6696


> As for the eye, Hubble was a much better eye than the human eye. It can see Gamma, UV, "normal" light, Infrared, and microwave light. (IE, the entire spectrum of light.) We can deliberately choose bands. We can set its precision arbitrarily, and further, it was built to be built upon. (It was modular.) In comparison, the human eye sees only a tiny segment of light, and detects peripheral motion. -Of course Hubble is a machine. The eye has life. I'd rather be the eye just to throw consciousness into the equation. And .Hubble has no free will. -> (Abiogenesis, etc...) -Abiogenesis will never be solved. Even if some scientist creates a form of living matter, no one can ever know if his way is the real way.
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> He then posits a simple formula, that Adaptation is the result of at least two forces:
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> Adaptation = Mutation + Natural Selection
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> David's theory would simply add another term:
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> Adaptation = Mutation + Epigenetics + Natural Selection 
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> Only Mutation is random. Natural Selection is NOT random. Epigenetics would not be random either. (Both NS and Epigenetics require environmental causes.) 
> Dennett clearly calls natural selection design. 
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> All of this (though relating to evolution) is a demonstration that overall—the whole process is NOT random, and by not knowing what caused abiogenesis, we don't know how "random" it was in the first place, either. -Here is a lecture by James Shapiro, in which he imputs much more control over changes by individual cells than most scientists have stated. Warning, he is a terrible lecturer, but his material is fascinating. This is taking epigenetics far beyond neoDarwinism.-http://vimeo.com/17592530