Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 00:48 (2861 days ago) @ BBella

dhw; I am well aware of your objections even to the theistic version of my inventive mechanism hypothesis, which I accept, but as an explanation of evolution I find it infinitely more logical than a mechanism that has to pass on billions of divine computer programmes for all solutions, innovations and natural wonders, or your God personally teaching bacteria to solve problems and weaverbirds to build nests, all for the sake of producing humans. And I’m afraid that rejection on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of the mechanism applies just as much to your hypothesis as to mine. Double standards.

David: Your theistic inventive mechanism constitutes a judgement of God's software writing ability: You want organisms to use His IM sequentially to conduct evolution and I think He could have written the software for all of it from the very beginning. Not double standards but two differing judgments of God's ability.

BBella: Why would God have to use an inventive mechanism or write the software for all life, when he could just BE the IM (I AM) and/or BE the software?

That is part of my dilemma: God could have written all the software in the genome in the beginning of life or He could ride herd and originate every step forward. Either way He is in total control, of which fact I am convinced.