New Oxygen research; abundance and Cambrian (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, October 03, 2016, 12:48 (2973 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Human intelligence is the answer. God gave it to us, fitting your theistic theory. -dhw: What is human intelligence the answer to? Does it explain your befuddling theory that God designed the weaverbird's nest / the parasitic fly / the cuttlefish's camouflage to ensure the continuation of life until humans arrived, and designed viruses so that humans (who hadn't yet arrived) would have problems to solve? And does it disprove the theory that God gave organisms the means of survival and possible improvement, thus leading to the higgledy-piggledy history of life on Earth?-DAVID: Back to the same point. God may well have given the organisms mechanisms for survival and improvement with guidelines. We've agreed it is a possibility.-God may well have given the organisms AUTONOMOUS mechanisms for survival and improvement, i.e. without guidelines. You have not agreed to that as a possibility.