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

by David Turell , Sunday, October 30, 2016, 00:47 (2947 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Extinction was due to “bad luck”, because organisms were “inadequate for the stress” of accidental environmental changes, and now we come full circle to God’s control of the environment with extinction being part of the great plan.

I remind you I am using Raup's terms. These animals were perfectly adequate until a new stress did them in. It is your point, and I agree it, that new circumstances engender new advances in evolution. I get the implication in your statements that you are inferring God made inadequate animals. He did not. They were adequate before the new changes that caused their demise

DAVID: You deny God so everything He might do is illogical to you. Remember faith involves belief.

dhw: As an agnostic I always allow for God’s existence, but I question the logic of your interpretation of God’s evolutionary purpose and method, which even you seem to find baffling. Compare this to the powerful logic you apply to the complexity of life’s mechanisms as a counter to atheistic faith in chance. Would you accept an atheist dismissing your argument by telling you to remember that faith involves belief?

I am not baffled at all. He had a goal of humans appearing and they did.