The Mind of God (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, February 12, 2015, 00:32 (3572 days ago) @ dhw


> Dhw: Life is not inventive. Organisms (and/or your God) are inventive, and an autonomous inventive mechanism designs. Back to the three (possibly four) hypotheses: God preprogrammed the d-b-p, God created the d-b-p separately, the antecedents of the d-b-p used their inventive mechanism to change themselves into d-b-p's, or God gave them half a set of instructions and left the other half to them (= your semi-autonomy). Take your pick.- By the way, I use the term 'life' in a generic sense. I know organisms, which are alive, evolve somehow.I wish I could take a pick from your proposals. I really can't. That is why the dilemma. I have concluded that God guides evolution. I truly believe that, but how is still beyond me. If there is an IM, and epigenetics suggests that strongly, because of my belief that God controls evolution, organismal self-induced changes are semi-autonomous. That is the only way everything fits in my theory.
 
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> dhw: I accept the gap [human intellect being so superior], but not your insistence that the gap did not evolve naturally. Your anthropocentric purpose is an interpretation of God's intentions.-As explained, I work backwards from what we know. Human mental ability is so enormously different from any other animals, that it is an unreasonable advance for ordinary expectations from an evolutionary process.-> dhw: All forms of life pursue the purpose of survival and propagation, which even for many humans is an end in itself, so maybe God created life for its own sake. If you ask me why, I'll ask you why he created humans, but you don‘t like that sort of question.-I am convinced God created life with the purpose of producing conscious humans. I can't take it further. You tell me why He did it if you can. I can't. I'm just glad he did.