Balance of nature illustrated (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, February 04, 2015, 15:07 (3366 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: My thought is very different than yours: nature has to have a balance so that a food supply is available for all living beings. 
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> dhw: Not quite. Nature keeps changing its balance, and some living beings survive while others don't.-Your reply is not on point. I'm simply considering food supply in the balance. Of course it changes. It has forever, which is why the program of conservation of species is not called for. 99% of everything that ever existed is gone. -> dhw: Might you perhaps be about to concede that a few billion organisms and lifestyles could have emerged independently of God's guidance,-No.- 
> DAVID: Balance gives the time to allow humans to appear though the evolutionary process. It did not cause humans.-> dhw: The diversity of life, from bacteria to trilobites to dinosaurs to weaverbirds' nests looks to me (yes, I know that's subjective) like a colossal free-for-all, and I doubt if even you would be able to find a link between all of them and the appearance of humans. If God exists, maybe a colossal free-for-all was what he wanted, but that doesn't fit in with the anthropocentric pattern you wish to believe in.-I never view it as a free-for-all. Somehow what we see is planned by God. It is how He controls it that is my dilemma.