The Intelligent Cell (Origins)

by dhw, Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 13:00 (4720 days ago) @ David Turell

I have suggested that our common ancestors may have been forced by environmental change in a particular region to adapt to a new way of life, thus developing new skills which resulted in the anatomical and mental changes that led to humans.

Dhw: Then you don’t need intervention, you don’t need pre-planning (other than the original mechanism for diverse forms of adaptation), you don’t need to explain the history of extinctions, and you don’t need to bother about God’s special focus on, interest in, purpose for Man. Then, David, you can say you believe in a UI without attributes!

DAVID: Exactly!! As explained above. You have entered my consciousness. Don’t rummage around too much. I have my secrets!

You gave away one of your secrets when explaining your theory: “The UI wished to create a living being with consciousness.” Once you attribute wishes to your UI, you start the train of thought that leads to conventional religion and anthropocentrism, but I shan’t rummage any more. Keep the rest of your secrets, you Jewish theist panentheist ID-er UI-er MD-author-cowboy, you!