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by David Turell , Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 00:31 (3540 days ago) @ dhw


> DAVID: Remember I don't know how God guided evolution, and I've agreed an onboard IM may really exist in most species. Where you and I disagree is whether it is autonomous vs. semi-autonomous, and I favor semi, so God stays in control. He is not fully in control with semi-autonomous.
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> dhw: I remain surprised at your sudden willingness to abandon evolution altogether and accept the possibility that God personally created each species. You now appear to be torn between four (not necessarily mutually exclusive) options: 1) God preprogrammed evolution; 2) God dabbled in the evolutionary process; 3) God gave organisms an inventive mechanism with which to drive evol- while he drove -ution; 4) evolution never happened, and God did it all (= Creationism). I must say I prefer the clear version in your book, in which the astonishingly versatile mechanisms enable organisms to adapt and invent. Ah, the good old days!-For some reason you have interpreted my position into four parts. You are a splitter and I'm not. Basically as stated over and over, I believe God used evolution to produce humans. How He did it is alluded to in my comment before yours above. I did mistype my very last comment. It should read "he is not fully in control with an autonomous IM, and in more control with semi-autonomous.