Different in degree or kind (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, November 03, 2013, 19:00 (3827 days ago) @ dhw

Dhw: May I ask you now why the distinction is so important to you?
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> DAVID: Because, if we are different in kind, then evolution is not a chance unguided process. The point Adler made.
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> dhw: Thank you. Could you not believe this if it were put to you that, despite our many similarities to our animal forebears, our level of consciousness is so much more advanced than theirs that God must have deliberately designed it, as he did their and our complex organs? This would give you all the advantages of the ID argument without the irrelevance of degree versus kind.-But that is exactly the point Adler made. By showing it is obviously difference in kind, then the gap is huge and not bridged by simple evolutionary processes, requiring an intervention by God. Quite clear to me. Just as the Cambrian Gap suggests an intervention. The origin of life requires an intervention. The big bang looks like an intervention. Thus the evidence points to God.