An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 11, 2014, 21:53 (3724 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> Tony; Firstly, I am not sure how my reasoning makes the bible inconsistent. If you would care to point that out to me, I could probably clarify. As to why he had to do so much planning, I have a counter question. From a biblical standpoint, God created his son directly, and then all other things were created according to God's will/design BY his Son,-We are discussing apples and oranges. I noted our different backgrounds. I was born a Jew and use only the OT. That is what I reference in my analysis. -> 
> Tony;To me, that is not only a tremendous undertaking, but it would be monumentally foolish as everything would die the instant it was created. Science tells us that in the first seconds after the big bang, the universe was excruciatingly hot. It tells us that the early earth was toxic to all life. Why did god have to plan it all out? Because he created the laws of physics that govern all matter, the laws which allow all of this to work. If he then created all of us with a twitch of his nose, those laws say that tremendous amounts of heat would see us still born everything destroyed. -I didn't interpret the 'nose twitch' to mean instantaneous creation of everything. Genesis says there were six stages. I assumed your plannng by God to be a sequential series of events. That has been my problem in thinking about dabbling.-> Tony: Why did he have to plan so much for the variation in life? He didn't. .....If you want animal life, human life, plant life, on a planet in the goldilocks zone with sweet waters and sweater air that can maintain itself for billions of years and maintain the lives of the creatures living upon it, then you have to plan out the systems to make sure they are correct.-Agreed, but God, as described, should have been able to do all the planning from the beginning, or he had to step in and adjust. Again, my dilemma.
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> Tony: As for the imperfection, no. Unless of course you count free will as an imperfection.-Free will is what we have and it allows for the human imperfections and the evil, and I think god intended it that way.