(March 27, 2015 at 12:15 pm)professor Wrote: How all the information to make a person or animal can reside in the amazingly small egg and sperm.
How the birds know to get back here from down south in time to have their little families.
The list is endless.
We flatter ourselves with information, when in reality- what we know amounts to the small dust on the scales.
The farther I go, the more in awe I am- considering the creation and the Mind that concocted it all.
[My bolding.] Yeah, that one leaves me in awe too. That from the information contained in DNA each and every creature assembles itself is mind blowing. But that indeed is what happens. A placental mother merely provides an environment where a fertilized egg can attach and complete its transformation. I too find it absolutely awe inspiring.
However, I don't think there are micro-gods that are down there reading the DNA's blue print and assembling each creature. Nope, that is done by the creature itself as it becomes what it is. Wow! In the same way, every species has fine tuned itself through interactions with its environment as described by evolutionary theory. I find assembly of each creature the most amazing part.
That the fabric of existence should work this way is truly astounding. But for me, to think that it was all happening by way of some deity pulling magic strings would diminish the awe I feel. How wonderful to be a part of that fabric having undergone the same self-assembly by means evolved over eons. As a naturalist who is in awe of the natural on its own terms, it seems to me a little less special to imagine a god fine tuning the fabric. If you hold a sufficient regard for the natural, no supernatural is needed. Why trade the magic of self assembling beings for the slight of hand of some deity shaping the inert into the living.
