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by dhw, Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 21:04 (3320 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw (16 March): 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). -David (17 March): For some reason you have interpreted my position into four parts. You are a splitter and I'm not.-Dhw (18 March): So now it would seem that your dilemma lies between a semi-autonomous inventive mechanism by which God semi-guided evolution, and the personal creation of each species (Creationism). At least it's being narrowed down.-DAVID (19 March): Not necessarily. My thinking must remain open-ended. Pre-programming and dabbling are still options, none of which are provable. But God-guided evolution I find very reasonable as in the comment I made about the essay I presented today.-Of course you do, and so it is. But you have gone straight back to the four-part position that I put to you on 16 March and which you rejected on 17 March! I even pointed out that the positions were not necessarily mutually exclusive. I could hardly have been more helpful!