New Oxygen research; pre-Ediacaran (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, July 23, 2016, 14:40 (2836 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: I agree with you. Cell activity follows a plan by any of the routes you suggest. Where did the plan they follow come from?
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> dhw: According to my hypothesis, they worked it out for themselves.-To which I respond. body plans starting with the Cambrian forms are too complex to happen in your simple way.-> DAVID: Do you really believe your theistic argument above? What you are saying is either God guided or God gave cells the ability to create body plans. Without God whaat is your alternative for body plans?
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> dhw: My alternative to your divine preprogramming and/or dabbling is that cells have the intelligence to cooperate in designing new functioning communities (creating body plans) which, in the course of millions and millions of years add more functioning communities, thus creating the bodies we know now. ... The agnostic version is that I do not know how life and intelligence came into being. My hypothesis concerning how evolution works can fit in with both theism and atheism.-Spoken from the picket fence. Intelligence involves the ability to gain and store new information. understand and correlate that information, and then have the foresight to design the next plan for the future. I don't see how even your concept of cells can do that.