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> DAVID: [i]I would remind, restructuring is not overall enlargement which brings lots of neuron networks yet to be restructured usefully as the brain is used in many new ways.[/i]
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> dhw: [i]1)Restructuring encompasses enlargement, complexification, reshaping, and shrinkage. You are prepared to accept that the last three of these, plus minor enlargements, take place without your God’s involvement. 2) I am proposing that major enlargement could also have taken place without your God’s involvement, though he may have invented the mechanism which directs all the restructurings. I don’t know why you find that so unlikely.[/i]
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> DAVID: [i](1) does not logically follow to (2). God is certainly involved in (1) producing all the mechanisms that perform. (2) means God is the operative who produced enlargement by some mechanism.[/i]
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> My various theories always allow for the existence of God. All our disagreements concern the possible nature, purposes and methods of that God. You believe that all brain enlargements – just like all species (until you stumbled into your errors theory) - were the result of divine preprogramming or direct design by dabble. I propose that the enlargements took place without divine intervention, by means of a mechanism which your God may have invented. Your response is neatly ambiguous, so I take it that you are now prepared to consider the possibility that just like sapiens’ complexification, reshaping, shrinkage and minor expansion, the major expansions of pre-sapiens brains took place without your God’s direct intervention. (But with the proviso that your God was the inventor of the mechanism that caused the expansions.)
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> DAVID: [i]I will never accept your intelligent cell theory. God simply made them look intelligent. [/i]
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> dhw: [i]Your refusal to accept that something which looks intelligent and acts intelligently might actually BE intelligent is what I would call bias. [/i]
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> DAVID: [i]It is 50/50 odds on the surface of it. Your bias is showing.[/i]
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> I hope your tongue is having fun in your cheek! The odds are 50/50, but you will never accept the theory. And this apparently means that my bias is showing!:-D