More about how evolution works: look at the video (Evolution)

by dhw, Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 19:00 (3101 days ago) @ David Turell

David: intelligence is everywhere, in the intelligent information in living organisms' cells to the intelligence in myriad brains of various types from C. elegans to humans. And you want it to just sort of evolve 'inexplicably'. That means you can't explain it, but it gets rid of the problem of God. More meat please. -dhw: What do you mean “it gets rid of the problem of God”? God is not the default position. You want an inexplicable intelligence called God to just sort of be there - “that means you can't explain it, but it gets rid of the problem” of how life and intelligence arose.-DAVID: I know He isn't the 'default'. But He supplies the information which is everywhere in biology. You need a thinking mind the create the underlying planning information in DNA and its modifying layers.-Agreed. And here are three different hypotheses: 1) an inexplicable eternal "thinking mind" that knew and planned every stage of evolution; 2) an inexplicable eternal "thinking mind" that supplied cells with their own “thinking minds” so that they could evolve (or not) in their own individual ways; 3) eternally changing energy/matter inexplicably becoming aware of itself and evolving ever more inventive “thinking minds” of its own. -DAVID: Faith totally clears up the mystery, solves all.
dhw: Precisely. You can have faith in an inexplicable power called God, or you can have faith in an inexplicable evolution of intelligence in matter, and each faith “totally clears up the mystery”.-DAVID: This comment does not clear up your acceptance of first cause, nor does it override the issue of information which must come from a planning mind.-See the three first cause hypotheses above. What is there to “clear up”? Why “a” mind? Why not zillions of minds accumulating and sharing information gleaned from an ever widening experience of materials?