Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 22, 2016, 16:08 (2893 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: The bush supplies the necessary food source for life to continue until humans appeared. Remember evolution took about 3.6 billion years to reach the human form. Evolution never went off course. Humans are here.

dhw: It was you who used the term “off course”: “…if it goes off course it is directed back to the purpose of producing humans.” The bush supplies the necessary food source for life to continue. This is true, and would still be true if there were no humans.

Ah, here you place the emphasis in the right place. Balance of nature is energy supply so evolution can continue for billions of years, humans or not.

dhw: Humans arrived, and so did the whale and the weaverbird's nest and the monarch butterfly. You think your God dabbled to get to all of them, but once again your “balance of nature” means nothing more than the fact that life continues, with or without humans. The fact that we appeared after a long time instead of a short time (though all is relative!)does not mean that all forms of life, lifestyles and natural wonders were specially designed (and then 99% destroyed) for the sake of continuing life in order to produce humans.

We've got the food issue settled. Why it took so long and evolution had to occur is what history tells us. God did not use immediate creation, although religions think He could have. Perhaps this is the only way for human creation to happen.