More Denton: Reply to David (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, August 06, 2015, 21:45 (3187 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: It is your own hypothesis of an astonishingly efficient 3.8-billion-year-old computer programme that Tony has criticized. He wrote: “You aren't talking about programming 1 creature to change, or 10. You are talking about pre-programming every possible variation of every possible variant into every single organism. While that may be *possible*, it is not very efficient or logical.” That echoes my own criticism. 
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> DAVID: As God programs life, what is most obvious to me is the change in DNA. Some of the simplest organisms have enormous DNA sizes with few genes. Humans have a small DNA in comparison, with many overlying coded controls, as if God refined His programming as evolution proceeded. This is partially why I think theistic evolution is the proper theory.
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> dhw:There is an interesting variation here. If God did “refine the programme” as he went along (another form of your “dabbling”), do you visualize him personally dipping into the innards of all the individual organisms concerned to change their programme, or sitting at some great console in the firmament, or doing it all by telekinesis? You must have SOME idea of how God might change the programme (or “dabble”).-I have admitted over and over that I have no idea how God does it, and I am sure He is still active. We know the information is in DNA and its overlying control layers. We know evolution follows patterns established in the beginning of life. Therefore there must be an overall control program which God can tweak somehow. That is as far as I can go.