Human evolution: we are entirely improbable (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, January 21, 2021, 12:20 (1189 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: I understand that your bottom is completely stuck on the points of your personal picket fence. But I had a reasonable thought conversion from agnosticism discovering factual science about evolution and other considerations. I found evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. I went where the evidence took me. Could your brain be stuck also? As for Dawkins, he has a blind eye to the evidence in front of his nose, as presented by ID.

dhw: According to you, “the way life evolved won’t ever be found by humans”, but you are a human, you have a theory, you think that any doubt is unreasonable, and you hope you are right. Your bottom is stuck on the points of your personal theory. Dawkins is a human, he has a theory, he reckons your theory is a delusion, and he hopes his theory is right. His bottom is stuck on the points of his personal theory. I am a human, I see what I consider to be reasonable doubts about both theories, I acknowledge that the truth “won’t ever be found by humans”, and I keep an open mind. My bottom is stuck on the point that you, Dawkins and I are humans who will never know the truth. Fair summary?

DAVID: Yes, but we can still keep learning as I put entries here, and add to the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. Fair summary?

Yes to “keep learning” – for which I must reiterate my gratitude – and to the arguments for design (see the theory of cellular intelligence), but emphatically no to “beyond a reasonable doubt” when it comes to the origin of whatever does the designing. i.e. the existence of an unknown, unknowable, eternally conscious, immaterial mind without a source but with infinite powers of psychokinesis.