Innovation; Just for dhw (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 19, 2015, 15:22 (3061 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: Nobody knows how any form of intelligence developed, but I am an agnostic, and have repeated a thousand times that your God may have invented the mechanism. The dispute is over how evolution works, and my hypothesis is an alternative to your divine 3.8-billion-year-old computer programme to explain every innovation from the year dot.-Our difference is I assume intelligence is eternal and always existed in/as God. You can't/won't do that. Intelligence CANNOT appear from inorganic matter as life starts, and initial life needs intelligent instructions/information.-> DAVID: I guess you cannot accept God because you are incredulous at what I believe He can do. Is that your hang-up?
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> dhw:I am incredulous at the fact that you do not believe your God could invent an autonomous intelligence allowing organisms to make their own evolutionary decisions, rather than him planning every one, though his aim was just to produce humans. Perhaps you cannot even contemplate this hypothesis because it would undermine your personal reading of your God's mind and purpose. -I've agreed He can give them the ability to make 'evolutionary decisions', only I add some guideline limits in order to be sure humans arrive. You don't like that limitation. Under your system it should advance helter-skelter and it is possible humans might never arrive. I think the advances of evolution are directed toward us as the definite endpoint.