Extinctions: Massive eruptions (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, August 29, 2016, 00:36 (2800 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:I would suggest that evolution is the consequence of an in-built drive (possibly built in by your God) for survival and or improvement, and somewhere along the evolutionary line interbreeding may well have played a role in the production and survival of most new species (broad and narrow senses). - Agreed
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> dhw: If prediction was the art of looking retrospectively at what has already happened, we would all be infallible prophets! However, knowing what has happened does not mean that it had to happen that way - only that it did happen that way. - However, if a result is highly unusual, as in the production of human and their level of consciousness, one can strongly suggest something or somebody monkeyed with the works.
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> DAVID (under “Convoluted human evolution”) DNA has shown that our evolutionary tree is very bushy and more like a river delta with streams in every direction: - > https://aeon.co/ideas/human-evolution-is-more-a-muddy-delta-than-a-branching-tree?utm_s... 
> If your God specially wanted to create homo sapiens, why could he not simply have created homo sapiens (as he did in Genesis)? - Did you miss thee point? The other streams interbred with humans giving them immunity and other attributes the humans had not developed and were helped by. - > 
> DAVID's comment: Looks like a guided evolution to me since the pattern is so unusual compared to other primate species.
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> dhw; We should not ask such questions, should we? Whatever is here was meant to be here, so God must have guided it to be here. - If one looks for purpose one finds it.