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by dhw, Thursday, March 19, 2015, 21:06 (3537 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: 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!-DAVID: I believe God did not do it absent some form of evolutionary process. I reject Number 4! If I accepted straight creationism, I wouldn't have all the puzzlement. Some form of evolution appears present. Would God be fooling me and lots of us? Not reasonable. But there are enough discrepancies' in simple common descent such as no genetic tree, convergence, saltation's, punctuated equilibrium contrived theory, etc. to strongly suggest theistic guidance as more complex life unfolded.-Number 4 was the separate creation of species, as referred to in your post of 15 March: "That is why my thought about evolution is that God guided it. Did He personally create each species or just guided a process He set in motion? I don't know. But it is one or the other."-The Creationists will be disappointed now, but we move on. It seems to me that all the so-called discrepancies can be explained by the intelligent, inventive mechanism, whether this was designed by your God or not. “Contrived theory” is a term I don't know, though. Perhaps you could explain.