Proving common descent (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 10, 2012, 15:13 (4373 days ago) @ dhw

What you have described comes under 3), with the proviso that God designed the mechanism. It is emphatically not 2), which = God intervening. But you are always hampered in your responses by your belief that you can read God's mind ... i.e. that it was his purpose to create humans. 3) leaves open the possibility that God programmed evolution, or that he started it off and sat back to see what would happen, or that it simply proceeded in accordance with what the environment demanded/allowed, irrespective of how it started. These options all fit in with the idea that the Cambrian Explosion was the result of new potential being made available to existing communities of intelligent cells.-I'm a God-mind reader in the sense that I look at what we see in evolution, and acknowledging that chance doesn't work, logically consider other possibilities. The Cambrian was the result of what? More oxygen? Dangerous to work with. Epigenetics? Doesn't fit. Epgenetics is a response to specific environmental changes. We are back to oxygen. Therefore,either pre-programmed or a push by God. Now we are at the preferrence level of human thought. Since evolution of the universe and of life runs smoothly 99% of the time, I still favor pre-programming.