Humans, Dogs and oxytocin (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, September 21, 2015, 20:02 (3133 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Comment: dhw will ask, did God dabble and cause all of this? I doubt it. I think the evolutionary mechanism God gave life did it all by itself.-dhw: Thank you! If the production of oxytocin was not preprogrammed into the very first cells to be passed down to our dogs and us, and God didn't dabble, then the evolutionary mechanism which did it all by itself must have its own independent intelligence. I guess this means you now agree that my buddies the weaverbird, the monarch butterfly, the plover, the wasp also did it all by themselves. But I suspect you still won't allow my other buddies the bacteria to join the Intelligence Club.
-DAVID: Sorry. This adaptation of oxytocin involves an existing hormone and a species (Canis) developing a new brain receptor for a new use. This is not as complicated as designing a weaver bird nest. It is equivalent to bacteria getting antibiotic resistance by a mutation.-Aw shucks! So back we go to your God preprogramming the weaverbird's nest into the first living cells for transfer through billions of years and organisms, or alternatively making a special visit (dabbling) to the prototype weaverbird to teach it how to build its nest, because without it he could never have produced humans. Oh, it would have been so much simpler if the mechanism God might have given to life did it all by itself!