DILEMMAS: A Response to DHW (Evolution)

by dhw, Friday, November 14, 2014, 12:55 (3422 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw (to Tony): And so I asked why “it was necessary for God to create and kill off millions of species on Earth in order to prepare the way for life elsewhere in the universe”. You have not explained the connection. If, then, life on Earth is not an end in itself, as described above, perhaps you will tell us in your own words: advancement of life towards what?-DAVID: For me, as you know, it is for the arrival of humans. I would again point out, we are way too advanced and complex and light-years beyond the apes we left behind, to find an excuse for us in a natural process of evolution. We were planned for!-I still want to know why Tony's God had to kill off millions of species on Earth to prepare the way for life elsewhere in the universe, but with your scenario, it's the 3.7-billion-year programme or direct dabble for every single innovation, including the monarch butterfly's four-generation life cycle, that beggars my belief. Maybe we were planned for, but God didn't know how to do it, or he improvised as he went along and suddenly had a great idea: “Let me create something that thinks like me. I'll dabble with that group of monkeys over there.” This still leaves us with life as a possible end in itself, as per evolution, or do you think there is some deeper purpose?


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