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

by dhw, Monday, October 31, 2016, 11:50 (2945 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: It was YOUR argument that the organisms were “inadequate for the stress” of accidental environmental changes! Yes of course they were adequate until they proved inadequate. Your dilemma is whether your God created the new environmental changes - in which case extinction was not “bad luck” - or the environmental changes were the result of chance, in which case God relied on luck to allow evolution to progress the way he wanted it to. You cannot have meticulous planning that relies on luck, but either way (deliberately or accidentally) you are left with your God having designed organisms that were, as you so rightly put it, “inadequate for the stress”.

DAVID: Agreed. if God made the universe, then He could manage the environment as He wished.

Of course. Therefore if God made the universe, all we have to do is decide how much he planned, how much he left to chance, and how much he left to the organisms themselves. And on that decision depends our theistic interpretation of how evolution works!