Chimp vs. human brain (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 15:34 (4162 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 15:50


> dhw:This discussion is not about bad design, or about design in general or about information in the genome (see my reply to your zebra-fish entry), and the problem is not atheists/agnostics trying to outthink God. Hyjyljyj's logic is impeccable. I myself am merely trying to understand God (if he exists), whereas you believe you can read his mind, because you insist that his goal was to create homo sapiens. THAT is the problem!-Please see my previous response, just composed. To repeat: the construction of life from the very beginning had to be very complex. Life can only be complex or it won't live. But, part of that complexity was a genome that permitted advancing complexity, a complexity that occurred as nature allowed. We are the most complex thing around. We arrived. It was allowed to happen. It didn't have to happen, but it did. The pre-planning is the input at the beginning. Not along the way. Look at this discussion from today. Old yeast DNA:-"New functional DNA does not appear out of thin air, but is built up gradually from a copy of an existing segment of functional DNA. By reconstructing a piece of prehistoric DNA that was copied several times during evolution, we were able to investigate in detail which changes occur in each of the copies and gradually lead to new functions. As such, our results provide a unique and detailed view into the molecular details of Darwinian evolution" says Kevin Verstrepen.
 
The scientists propose that the events observed here in the yeast cell's quest for sugar may reflect a general strategy widely used for innovation in evolution."-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121211193303.htm--We have consciousness. I don't believe it was invented by evolution. It was always present in the UI. And reappeared in us, made in the image of God in our minds. If a UI started all this it is logical to assume that it wanted a result with consciousness like its own.-As you know I always try to work from what we see. What you see are my logical assumptions snd extrapolations.