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Do you consider that there is more to human intelligence than natural mechanisms have explained?
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Why don't you show us these differences that mutations and natural selection could not produce. Show us some aligned sequence and show us how mutations could not produce those differences.
Do you consider that there is more to human intelligence than natural mechanisms have explained?
Why should I consider a claim that is not backed by any evidence?
Can you show me a single genetic difference between humans and other apes that could not be produced by random mutations and selection?
I cannot speak for Yoder, but I think you missed his point.
Anyway, the point as I see it is that human consciousness and its processes cannot be explained well when we have to use nothing but natural causes in our explanation.
Exactly. Reductionists must, due to their own philosophical blinders, deny there is a mindal and spiritual aspect to man beyond what natural mechanisms can explain.
I cannot speak for Yoder, but I think you missed his point.
Anyway, the point as I see it is that human consciousness and its processes cannot be explained well when we have to use nothing but natural causes in our explanation.
As it stands, natural mechanisms do explain the differences we see between genomes. The differences between humans and other species is due to a difference in the sequence of our genomes.
Even if that were true, you still haven't explained how those genetic changes happened in the first place.They occur through the observed mechanisms of mutation. You are aware that mutations have been observed, correct?
Arguing about human intelligence with a reductionist is like arguing about common descent with a creationist.
Why? Please explain yourself.
Even if that were true, you still haven't explained how those genetic changes happened in the first place.They occur through the observed mechanisms of mutation. You are aware that mutations have been observed, correct?
Why? Please explain yourself.
Again, even if one were to find the exact places in the human genome where the changes necessary for human intelligence happened, that wouldn't explain how they happened in the first place. It is simply a naturalistic assumption that no outside cause was involved.
Again, even if one were to find the exact places in the human genome where the changes necessary for human intelligence happened, that wouldn't explain how they happened in the first place. It is simply a naturalistic assumption that no outside cause was involved.
Even if that were true, you still haven't explained how those genetic changes happened in the first place.
What outside cause? Evidence please.
What we do have are observed natural mechanisms that change genomes. We also have a pattern of divergence between humans and other ape species that is entirely consistent with this observed mechanism. How is this not a valid explanation for how it happened? What other observed and evidenced mechanisms are we ignoring?
DNA polymerase makes an uncorrected error during meiosis, resulting in a mutation. If beneficial, this mutation will probably propagate in the population due to differential levels of reproductive fitness.
Perhaps you should read The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, who had a very scientific mind:
The Varieties of Religious Experience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Man is more than just a mutated ape.
But again, it is only a naturalistic assumption that the mind and spirit of man is an evolutionary accident rather than the product of an outside cause.
Man is more than just a mutated ape.
Man is more than just a mutated ape.
But again, it is only a naturalistic assumption that ....
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