An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 11, 2014, 16:00 (3724 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained
edited by David Turell, Thursday, September 11, 2014, 16:06

Tony: Unlike the Djinn, God didn't twitch his nose and make things poof into existence. Things had to be prepared at each and ever step, and he used life to do that. Sometimes it was the simple machines (single-celled organisms), at others it was more complex life. Regardless, each necessary step was planned and implemented in such a way that it achieved the desired results, whether those results were terraforming the land, altering the atmosphere, or filling a niche in the ecosystem that needed to be filled in order to maintain homeostasis.-Recognizing that Tony and I come from very different religious childhoods, and therefore biases, I think Tony's reasoning makes the bible inconsisent. If the Bible's God is as all-powerful and all-knowing as implied, why did He have to do so much planning? That is why I feel God could create an evolutionary system that could do a great deal of its own advancement planning. My stumbling block is deciding if the plan were perfect as the Bible would imply, and not requiring dabbling, or did it have imperfections? So I've not used the Bible and tried from just the science discovery standpoint. Certainly, evolution looks like there was a process in place that God could have started. It ended in humans, and that is extremely significant. Based on Darwinoid thinking, humans are not a required result, and the gap to consciousness compared to other living forms is gigantic.