Evidence for pattern development; mulling (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, December 06, 2014, 18:23 (3640 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: He is my God. I interpret him as I see fit.-I had drafted a full reply to your post, but on reading it through, I realize that we are simply going over the same ground again and again. It is of course right and proper that you interpret your God as you see fit, and in offering you alternative interpretations (a) of his intentions (if he exists), and (b) of the course that evolution has taken - with particular emphasis on an autonomous inventive mechanism, as opposed to random mutations sorted out by Natural Selection, divine preprogramming, and divine dabbling - I remain fully aware of the problems associated with ALL the different hypotheses. None of us know any of the answers, and that is why there is no consensus, but unless anyone else has a new angle from which to approach these two subjects (God's supposed intentions and what mechanisms have driven evolution from the single cell to the complexities epitomized by ourselves), perhaps it might be better to round this discussion off.