Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 23:02 (2831 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: If God guides evolution as His process to produce humans, He has to dabble. Evidence of His works is in the new design of new species, which is obvious in all of evolution that jumps huge gaps in form and function. Only a planning mind can do it

dhw: I have tried to follow through on the claim that God is “within” all things. If so, then how can things go wrong and require a “dabble”? That would mean he has to rectify his own mistakes. Corrective dabbling would only be necessary if organisms were able to do their own thing independently of God: and that means an autonomous, intelligent, inventive mechanism – a possibility which you have accepted but reject whenever it comes down to concrete examples such as carnivorous plants and the frog’s tongue, not to mention the weaverbird’s nest.

I never said that God has to dabble when things are wrong. A dabble is pushing evolution along from where it happens to be. Dabbles are evolutionary progress, nothing else. You love organismal autonomy as if that gets rid of God. If God created life, He gave that ability to them. Fine.