More Denton: A new book (Introduction)

by BBella , Friday, February 05, 2016, 23:30 (2996 days ago) @ David Turell


> > David's comment: Who made the 'natural telic law'? And note, an agnostic at Discovery Institute.
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> > Re Spetner:
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> > http://www.evolutionnews.org/2016/02/information_and102571.html
>&a... > dhw: If our evolutionary starting point is the intelligent cell, there is no chance involved in the process, since every innovation is the product of deliberate exploitation of the environment, though changes to the environment may themselves be the products of chance. The origin of the intelligent cell is open to conjecture.
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> And who or what gave the cell intelligence? No proof, but I would still say God.-If we have to ask "who" gave the cell intelligence, then wouldn't we have to ask "who" gave God intelligence? Your answer would probably be, God has always had intelligence. Then couldn't one just as well say the cell has always had intelligence, or, in my mind, just as well say intelligence has always been, just as energy and matter has always been? Does intelligence absolutely require a beginning or a place of origin, one central location, as a first mind?