Innovation; Just for dhw (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 24, 2015, 00:29 (3259 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: You can conjure up all the possible God thoughts you wish. Humans are here as the pinnacle of evolution.
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> dhw: My focus in this discussion is on how evolution works. I repeated your own question (why so many phyla?) and also asked what was the point of all those that died out. I have offered two possible answers allowing for your theistic, anthropocentric version of evolution. Can you see any flaw in these two explanations for what you have agreed is the helter-skelter bush of animal evolution?-Actually, no. But you used a mechanism of imagining God's thoughts to make your point, which is why I answered the way I did.
 
> dhw: Yes, indeed. And one needs faith to fill in the huge gaps in both arguments, since neither science nor reason can do so. I should add, however, that science and reason may not be the best guides to “truth”, whatever that may be.-What other approach can we use? I don't trust religions' opinions.