New Oxygen research; importance to evolution (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, February 04, 2017, 13:28 (2849 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: (under “Evolution took a long time”): I am simply pointing out that invaders disturbing the “balance of nature” have nothing to do with your God designing and destroying countless species in order to produce humans.

DAVID: How does evolution proceed without loss of earlier species?

dhw: That still has nothing to do with invaders disturbing the “balance of nature”.

DAVID: The articles about correcting balance of nature from invaders are to illustrate how sensitive the balance is.

Thank you. It is a totally separate issue from “balance of nature” in the context of how evolution has developed.

dhw: And it still doesn’t mean that God had to design all the extinct species, lifestyles and wonders in order to get to humans. And evolution has proceeded with some species surviving. I might just as well ask you why your God couldn’t simply have concentrated on the species that were necessary for the evolution of humans instead of bringing in all the unnecessary ones and then killing them off.

DAVID: I really can't answer you. We both see that is what happened.

Thank you for your honesty. Maybe the answer is that he didn’t design all the extinct species, lifestyles and wonders in order to get to humans. As below:

dhw: I trust you are standing by your earlier agreement to the possibility of the mechanism being autonomous (bar divine dabbling).

DAVID: Yes, autonomous, with God correcting whenever necessary is possible.

Isn’t it nice to have a possible answer to the question you couldn’t answer!