Biological complexity: how hemoglobin works (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, April 21, 2017, 14:14 (2561 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID (under “ants farm fungus”): With bacteria, they pass it on by splitting in two, no societal culture involved.

dhw: Bacteria communicate, and often form groups. In any case, cell memory would explain how information can be passed from one generation to another.

DAVID: They do communicate chemical signals and biochemical processes they contain are passed along automatically in the splitting process.

As usual you slide in the word “automatic”, and once a solution has been found, this may well be so. The question is how bacteria are able to come up with their solutions in the first place.

DAVID: This bacteria has a highly complex solution which it did not invent by a chance mechanism. It is a very specialized organelle.

Yes indeed, the bacterium may have invented the solution by using its possibly God-given intelligence, as opposed to your God having preprogrammed it 3.8 billion years ago, or popped in to tell it what to do. And one can’t help wondering why your God would have preprogrammed or dabbled all these specialized bacterial methods of attacking humans. In your moments of humanization you have suggested that he wanted to see how we solve the problems he set us, but perhaps you have already withdrawn that suggestion. Dangerously close to the concept of God enjoying the spectacle he has created.

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