The Mind of God (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 15:09 (3574 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Once again, those genomic and brain complexities cannot have been developed by chance. IMHO we are autonomous.
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> dhw: And if the amazing complexities of our brain can make us autonomous, perhaps the amazing complexities of other organisms can do the same.-As usual you blithely slip over the huge gap in human complexity from all the others. Of course, multicellular organisms have their own levels of autonomy.
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> dhw: And I also look for a reasonable explanation as to why the duck-billed platypus is here, and I don't find one in the suggestion that God needed it for the balance of life and the production of humans. Deliberate free-for-all, experimentation, or even - who knows? - “Oops, what have I done here?” Looking closely at the d-b-p, my money would be on a free-for-all. -I've agreed that God may well have made life very inventive. we are still unearthing the extent of epigenetic mechanisms. For some of us even the life style of the d-b-p suggests design. I've actually seen some in action in Australia.-> 
> dhw: You have imposed a very specific purpose, and on analysis it seems very hard to fit that purpose to the higgledy-piggledy course of evolution as we know it. Of course you can escape by saying nobody knows the mind of God, but I see nothing wrong in our looking for other possible purposes that fit in more snugly than the one you advocate.-Your 'hard to fit' problem stems from an unwillingness to accept how vast the gap is between humans and everything else. Please give me one 'other possible purpose' that fits the record without interpreting the intentions of God. Since I accept Him That is my approach, not yours.