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So birds and circadian clocks accurate to seven years are not the result of random biological mutations?


You can tell a bird is built through evolution pretty easily. Lot of give aways in the structure which serves no point or is badly designed because mutations can only change small changes at a time without being able to think through to future.

I am not saying random mutations can't build entities that are accurate or can exist in reality. Of course they can. But it's also pretty obvious these structures are result of mutations and not creative thought.


As far as we know, creative thought, at least in humans here on earth, is an outflow of evolution through natural selection. In that sense, creative thought is produced by evolution, and not some supernatural phenomenon. There are some that talk about consciousness and intelligence as something that permeates the universe and hence orthogonal to evolution on earth, but that is highly speculative and not scientific assertion.


Bedrock on Scientific knowledge is also a widely speculative assumption that a physical reality exists outside consciousness.


it's a wildly speculative assumption to believe the world existed before last Thursday!


It could be something like Minecraft right? You experience it constantly but there is no physical existence outside consciousness.

Also last Thursday is also just an idea. There no Physical representation of last Tuesday out there. Tuesday is also merely an idea.

There is only the now.


That is the other possibility.




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