Junk DNA: goodbye!: Review article (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, March 21, 2015, 20:34 (3535 days ago) @ dhw

TONY: Did he have to know that from the instant that he sprang into existence? You and DHW both seem to treat him like he has to be Houdini, springing into existence (or always existing) already having all the answers, and completely disregarding the possibility that maybe he didn't do any creating for a REALLY long time. If WE, as imperfect as we are, understand that sitting down and working out a plan BEFORE you start production of something is a good idea, how much more so would God understand that. Do you REALLY look at creation and think, "Eh, he must have made it up as he went along"?
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>DHW: I don't treat him like that at all. I don't even know if he exists! And I have repeatedly challenged David's idea that God, if he exists, could know it all in advance. I could actually imagine him making a lot of it up as he goes along (or experimenting) - after all, he may have had eternity to mess around with different ideas and even with different universes. And of course if HE had eternity, unconscious first cause energy would also have had eternity to produce whatever unconscious first cause energy might produce, including perhaps different universes. Who knows? But I'd best leave the two of you to fight over what God might have known and not known, since you are a lot closer to him than I am.-Err... But you just said "dhw: Here are the real alternatives: ...the story of life began from the top with an undesigned supercolossal intelligence that always knew everything,"-
I'm no closer to God than anyone else, and please do not put those words in my mouth. I do strive to cut out habits/practices from my life that I find to be at odds wit what the bible teaches, but the only one that has the right to say who is closer and who is not is God himself, and I would not presume to claim to speak for him. That is why I try to reference the bible when talking about God.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.