Concepts of God: how I think about God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by dhw, Saturday, April 09, 2016, 12:42 (3149 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: According to you, God also created the camouflaged cuttlefish. All life is special. But I agree that our consciousness is specially special. That does not prove God planned and created all living things just for our sake. And what would happen if the tape of evolution was rerun seems to me a totally pointless speculation.-DAVID: There is no proof of any of this, but as I've said before, that is what you want, proof! You have no conclusions from the evidence available. Gould's rerun of evolution was based on his contention that the whole series of events is based on contingencies, his view of Darwinian chance. Atheistic blather.-Gould would no doubt have said his hypothesis was based on the evidence available, and that your hypothesis is theistic blather. Proof is impossible, but for me the evidence for all the hypotheses is insufficient to draw a conclusion. I don't know why this is so difficult for you to accept.