Natures wonders: ants and other insects farm (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 15:18 (1446 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Traffic is still either/or without God's help. Farming probably required God.

dhw: Do you think the origin of farming or of architecture could have been either/or? Once again: “required God” means either a 3.8-billion-year-old programme for ant farming (along with every other undabbled life form, lifestyle, strategy, natural wonder in life’s history...), or God giving farming courses to ants. I’m sorry, but I find both options just a little hard to swallow.

DAVID: I said farming probably required God's help.

dhw: The only forms of “help” you have offered us are 3.8-billion-year-old preprogramming, occasional dabbling, or full hands-on dabbling. I find them all hard to swallow, but perhaps in the meantime you have come up with another mode of help. (Please don’t say “guidelines” without explaining what form they could possibly take.)

I didn't find God hard to swallow, since I have concluded a designer must exist. You've covered the ways I think God does it.


Complete thread:

 RSS Feed of thread

powered by my little forum