Biological complexity:how toxoplasmosis parastizes (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, November 30, 2016, 12:16 (2698 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I like to hear your theological theories benighted as they often are.

dhw: As for the weaverbird, so too for the toxy. The theory: your God gave life to the first cells, and with life he gave them an intelligence that enabled them to work out their own ways of coping with (= adaptation) AND exploiting (= innovation) the changing environmental conditions that all the different regions of the Earth have undergone. This explains why, over thousands of millions of years, so many species and so many natural wonders have come and, in most cases, gone. Occasionally, he may have intervened to change the course of the great ongoing spectacle.
Benighted? Yes, of course. None of us know how life originated and diversified. And if there is a God, none of us know what he is like or how he works. We CAN only theorize.

DAVID: If we can find the intelligence you think your version of God put onboard then you win! But some of us can think we know how He works by looking at his works!

Isn’t that a coincidence! I also look at the realities we think we know and which, if God exists, he must have created. And I also extrapolate ideas from those “realities” about how he works. If you can find the 3.8-billion-year computer programme or a signed statement from God that he dabbles, then you win! But of course those would be absolute proof, which is impossible, whereas you cannot even consider my hypothesis until I can provide absolute proof, which is impossible. That’s what we call double standards.