Different in degree or kind: Sapiens begin brain use (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, October 27, 2016, 19:27 (2731 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: The fact that evolution can advance through horizontal gene transfer has absolutely no bearing on whether your God pre-programmed/dabbled organisms or endowed them with the ability to negotiate their own gene swapping.

Did organisms learn to gene swap, or did God give them the ability from the beginnng? That is my point.

dhw:I don’t think it’s a good idea to keep going back to earlier posts, as these will only lead us back to the same arguments. However, it’s a good way of distracting attention from the latest unfathomable logic by which your God meticulously plans luck.

Raup used 'luck' to make his point about accidental extinctions, by which happenstance most of them occurred that way. He never discussed God, but God managing environment is possible in the theistic world.