Contingent evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, June 30, 2014, 15:14 (3582 days ago) @ dhw


> Dhw (to Tony): "Pre-planning" and "complete knowledge" imply a creative intelligence with an overall view.......This hypothesis offers the possibility of billions of organisms experimenting. [...] However, sooner or later, this hypothesis like all others, including that of a God, comes up against the brick wall of how such "intelligence(s)" originated. 
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> DAVID: You have now described the preponderance of evidence that strongly suggests God exists. Brick wall indeed.-Let me add that in any analysis of how something might work one should not introduce a brick wall as to how it (the process) might have originated. It eliminates any chance of determing the origin of such a process. A bunch of 'intelligent cells' cooperating to create the complexities of advanced living matter (i.e., humans) did not arrive de novo,as you have indicated. Just stating that cells simply have a form of their own intelligence avoids the issue of automatic behavior as an equal and an INHO more probable mechanism. Particularily because I don't think you fully appreciate the functions within the cell, as my youtube videos, which I provide now and then, clearly show.
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> dhw: I have described how evolution might have proceeded without any intervention by your God. I have left open the question of origins, as that is not the subject of this thread. But since you insist, what I have described contains no evidence for or against the existence of God. Stay at the bottom of the class.-The bottom of th class is in rebellion. If you ever saw the movie about a coke bottle appearing in the middle of tribal Africa, you'd understand. Curoius humans want the whole story, not one improbable piece. And you keep forgetting that panpsychism has its origin in a thought that a little of God is in every part of the universe.