Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by dhw, Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 08:25 (2838 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: And I'm sure He is watching. My humanizing approach is quite opposite yours.

dhw: That is the nub of the whole matter. You dismiss alternative versions of your God’s purpose on the grounds that they “humanize” him, though you admit that your own version also humanizes him. The problem is quite simply that you do not want to consider any view of God’s purpose that differs from your own. One last question: since you are always the one looking for purpose, and since you are sure God created us, and since you are sure God is watching us, what do you think might be God’s purpose for watching us?

DAVID: He created us. Why shouldn't He be interested in seeing how we handle problems? Interested not purposeful.

dhw; Thank you for putting my case for me. If he created us in order to set us problems, and now watches us with interest, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that he actually created us so that he would have something interesting to watch.

DAVID: No, I'm not. Your approach is much too humanizing for me. He didn't feel the need to create something interesting. He simply had a specific goal, the creation of humans.

Once more you state your beliefs with authority, as if you had access to your God’s thoughts. He only wanted to create humans and…what? He had no reason for doing so? (A few days ago, he wanted a relationship with us, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside in view of communication problems with a hidden being who has nothing in common with us.) According to you, your God is all-purposeful, so why are you so unwilling to accept that if he created us, set us problems, and is watching our efforts to handle them, he might just possibly have created us in order to set us problems in order to watch us handling them?