Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, February 25, 2017, 14:35 (2610 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I think your disbelief creates a skewed thought pattern as it relates to God and his possible intentions. Of course you have every right to speculate.

dhw: Agnosticism is not disbelief (= God does not exist) but non-belief (= I can’t make up my mind whether God exists or not). There is a huge difference. ....If you can’t understand why he chose personally to design millions of life forms, lifestyles and natural wonders in order to keep life going until he could dabble with pre-human brains, or pre-humans could switch on their brain-enlargement programme, then maybe it is your own thought pattern that is “skewed”.

Still on a picket fence must tilt your thinking. My contention that God guided evolution and chose it as a mechanism to create humans is a logical extension of my conclusion that humans were His goal.

dhw: Then let me try once more to pin you down: do you or do you not think it is possible that frogs and carnivorous plants designed their own methods of catching prey, or do you still insist that only your God could have preprogrammed or dabbled them?

God did it.

DAVID: Isn't a designer required if chance won't work?

dhw: Yes. But that does not mean the designer designed every life form in order to get to humans.

Of course what a designer does is design.