causation (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, June 08, 2014, 19:30 (3609 days ago) @ romansh

David: I don't accept that such mechanisms are self-developed. Their presence makes for enormous genomic complexity, beyond Darwin's own imagination, far beyond the possibility it all developed by chance with no purpose.
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> Rom: What are the chances of some universal intelligence doing it?
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> Are you stepping away from the definition of chance ... ie something we can't predict accurately?-I don't see any unguided mechanism capable of what has resulted.
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> Rom: Essentially you seem to be arguing that this universe has a purpose. Personally I don't see it other than the purpose we may ascribe to it.-And the purpose I see is the arrival of sentient beings, us.