about how evolution works; with no challenge (Evolution)

by David Turell , Sunday, November 22, 2015, 16:05 (3287 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: The stress you referred to earlier was “advances due to stress”, i.e. the challenge of a changed environment. That relates to adaptation. Now you are switching to stress caused by innovation for the sake of improvement. Are you suggesting, then, that your whale didn't suffer any stress because God organized its transition, whereas my whale went through agonies? How do you know?-"Know' is much too strong a word. The jumps in the whale series are a prime example of my viewpoint. God HAD to have guided this. Logically it could not have occurred by chance.-> dhw:And that's just one of the billions of programmes that had to be passed down selectively by the very first cells so that birds and cats and whales and dinosaurs and the duck-billed platypus could fulfil your God's purpose of creating humans. Ockham will be squirming in his grave.-God and Occam are not compatible. Human reasoning and Occam are compatible. Why do you think God thinks like you do?