Daniel Smith
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| Quote (Richard Simons @ Nov. 12 2008,16:12) | Daniel: I was asking about your justification for describing fungal mycelia as cellular, not Wikipedia's. The point is, they can be basically tubes full of cytoplasm and nuclei, not divided into cells at all.
But that is a side issue; what I really want to know is how does (did?) your god actually move the atoms around? It is clearly something you've never thought of, yet it seems to me that it is central to your notions of what took place. Let me join the chorus of people asking you to put some flesh on your ideas. I'm not asking you for the kind of details you want to know about evolution, just something that is testable and different from evolution. |
First, God is not a man - he is not bound to our physical limitations. He's also all powerful. Essentially he could just will the atoms into place. (And condescension noted: I have actually thought a lot about how he did it).
But, it doesn't really matter how he did it - since my view does not depend on mechanism like yours does. What's important from my side is that those molecules are organized in a manner consistent with what we know of intelligent design - that is they are A) organized for specific function, and B) organized at a level not attainable by accidental mechanisms. The same can be said of the designs of men (at least the ones that are not designed to look natural).
You will no doubt counter with "But life looks like it evolved", and I agree that it does (to a point), that's why the compromise is 'designed evolution'. It explains both the appearance of design and the appearance of evolution.
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