Proving common descent (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, November 12, 2012, 15:15 (4395 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: And this is where the whole idea of purposeful Creation becomes too involved for me to find credible. If God was capable of building and fine-tuning a whole universe to sustain life, and if his purpose was to create humans, then was he NOT capable of controlling the climate? Why did billions of species have to come AND GO before he finally got to what he wanted? -Tony's answer is perfectly reasonable. In regard to climate, since we like sunny days perhaps it should never rain. The species that came and went were preparation for the next step, as Tony explains. The universe was created by an explosion with the imposition of a group of physical laws to guide it from there. The universe in those terms was easy. Life is much more complex. Biochemistry requires an encyclopedia of information, the universe a primer. Not surprising God chose His approach.