Life's biologic complexity: Automatic molecular actions (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 20, 2016, 19:24 (2676 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: You seem suddenly to have forgotten about your “freewheeling”. That can only mean that God enabled organisms to do their own thing, which you qualified by saying that if they went off course, he directed them back to the production of humans. To avoid all this faffing about with ‘balance of nature’, which simply means life goes on with or without humans, I’ll go back to my most straightforward example, with a straightforward question and a straightforward request: do you now believe that your God allowed the weaverbird to “freewheel” in constructing its nest? If not, please explain how his direction of the weaverbird was instrumental in the production of humans.

I've not forgotten freewheeling at all. I do not think the weaverbird ever invented his nest by himself. Much too complex in the knots involved, which I know you have reviewed. Young boy scouts would have trouble. Freewheeling refers to body type, not nest invention. And, of course, back to balance of nature to explain why weaverbirds exist. It took lots of feeding of organisms over lots of time to get to the point when humans could develop.