Balance of nature illustrated (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, February 05, 2015, 21:49 (3578 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: In that case, I'm not sure what your point is. Living organisms have to have food, but the balance is always changing, 99% of all species have disappeared, and somehow this proves that God has planned everything? -Of course the balance is always changing. This is planning for a balanced food supply at all times, not for survivorship. What survives is balance of food supply, period.-> DAVID: 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.
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> dhw: No dilemma as I see it, since you've made it clear that you think he either preprogrammed the very first living cells to pass on every conceivable innovation and lifestyle, or he dabbled. I'd have thought there would be much more of a dilemma in figuring out why he should specially preprogramme or dabble the weaverbird's nest, the monarch's lifestyle, the spider's silk, and the 99% of dead species, when apparently what he actually wanted to do was create humans. -And that is just what happened. The book, Nature's IQ , which I referred to in my book, was published by authors with my viewpoint: that is, very complex lifestyles point to a designer God, since it is extremely unlikely that the organisms, by themselves, could have created these complex ways of living. You question why He did it, I don't. You seem to be implying life should be simple and straightforward and it isn't. I try to reason why based on design because I don't believe chance can create these complex lives. Why do salmon go to sea for six years? I don't know. It seems it would have been simpler to stay in a nice safe fresh water pond. But the salmon I love to eat have great nutritional value. Perhaps this is the desired result. This is all speculation, but I start with the premise that it is designed, because it looks designed, and for me I don't have to go any further. It simply fits.