Theistic evolution vs. Darwinism (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 23, 2013, 15:00 (3991 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: You are still inventing brilliant intelligence out of thin air. Raw energy at what level, by what mechanism can invent intelligence and thought? Pipe dream.
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> dhw: How you love to pounce on your own shadow! Your God is your invention of "brilliant intelligence out of thin air", 
> Belief in pipe dreams depends on leaps of faith (remember Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people"). Pipe dreamers are ill advised to criticize their fellow leapers of whatever creed for smoking pipes. That is the privilege of us non-leaping, non-smoking fence-sitters!-The degree of intelligence you need to create the universe and life by panpsychism is certainly equivalent to the concept of 'my God'. You are literally arguing for God without using the term or concept. Think of God without the religious overlays, as I do, and you are at the same stage of my thought process. We are in almost full agreement, except for the terminology.