Bacterial motors carefully studied: Addendum (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 14, 2016, 18:04 (2927 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I see no reason why you should believe your God to have been incapable of creating an evolutionary mechanism that would function without his preprogrammed or personal “guidance”.-I think he is perfectly capable of it with preprogrammed guidance.
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> dhw: Nobody can explain innovations, or the Cambrian, or any sort of consciousness, human or otherwise. Nobody can explain your God either.-Why is it then that all civilizations have suggested that there must be God/gods?. It is an idea built into our consciousness, as a recognition that the mysteries of nature and life require a mind to plan it.-> dhw: I don't know why it should be deemed unnatural, or "no good reason", for some intelligent organisms to exploit nature's opportunities in order to improve themselves (remember, my hypothesis allows for your God endowing them with their intelligence).-They can, but only if God gives them planning ability.-
> dhw: But I accept the reasons for your questioning the concept of an autonomous inventive mechanism. I only remain surprised by your unwillingness to question the hypothesis that an individual, unknown, sourceless, superintelligent mind deliberately and personally organized every single innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder (including the weaverbird's nest) throughout the history of evolution in order to produce and feed humans.-Simple answer. Why are humans here? An extremely improbable event.
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> DAVID: Tour's incredulity comes from more than his problems with protein synthesis etc. etc. […] I'm with Tour. His problems in the lab make the case: life is improbably complex, and could not have started by chance.
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> dhw: I also share Tour's incredulity. How often do I have to repeat that I do not believe in chance? ...However, that does not mean God personally organized every single innovation, lifestyle etc. etc. as per your own personal theory of evolution. .... I have similar problems of incredulity regarding a single, unknown, sourceless, superintelligent mind creating billions of solar systems. That is one of the main reasons why I am not a theist. I may have...zzzzz...-And so to sleep with a dead end in your thinking. Perchance to dream....