Different in degree or kind: our hands (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, March 11, 2016, 08:36 (3180 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw...Yet you won't even consider the possibility that your God gave the weaverbird the intelligence to design its own nest!-DAVID: I always admitted that He might have left the weaver birds with instructions they could follow to do it on their own but you won't accept an IM with guidelines. You want the bird (brains) to do it own their own, which implies advanced planning to achieve the design. I thought you had abandoned the Darwinian hunt-and-peck advances.-I realize attack is the best method of defence, but my post questioned the logic behind your belief that your God provided the first cells with instructions or programmes to be passed down, through billions of years and organisms, for every single innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder extant and extinct (or alternatively he personally supervised each one), organized all his programmes to fit in with every environmental change (or organized the environmental changes himself), and created billions of solar systems (also extant and extinct), all for the sake of producing or feeding humans. You call this “reasoning to the best solution”, and do not even regard it as questionable. Your reasoning seems to be that humans are so unique - even though they did descend from earlier organisms, with which they share the majority of their characteristics - that your God could not have had any other purpose for creating all the above. You yourself sometimes admit you don't really understand why he had to go through such a rigmarole in order to produce us but, as with most beliefs and disbeliefs in this context, it doesn't matter if the facts don't seem to fit the theory: the basic premise must stand, and everything else is just a matter of “loose ends”. I can understand why you prefer to ignore the rest of my post and take a snipe at Darwin instead.