Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, February 24, 2017, 13:07 (2829 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw:I have never said that autonomy gets rid of God. It is my alternative to your own avowedly nonsensical interpretation of the evolutionary process. The problem with your on-and-off acceptance of the autonomous inventive mechanism is that so far you have not accepted one single example of its inventiveness. God always has to dabble, even to camouflage the cuttlefish, build the weaverbird’s nest, guide the monarch, and design frogs’ tongues and carnivorous plants, all so that life can go on until he can dabble with the pre-human brain, which he couldn’t have done more directly because…because…because…he couldn’t have done it more directly.

DAVID: As a non-believer in God, your interpretations miss the mark for those of us who believe.

There is no mark to miss. Those of you who believe have all kinds of beliefs, and you have always prided yourself in NOT following the interpretations of the established religions.

DAVID: You cannot come to the position that He did it, so you rationally try to explain God without recognizing that He did what He did for his own reasons.

I have no doubt that if he exists, he did what he did for his own reasons. I merely point out to you that the reason you impose on him (designing every species, lifestyle and natural wonder in order to keep life going till he could dabble with the pre-human brain (or his brain-enlargement programme switched itself on) doesn’t make sense, even to you, so maybe he had a different motive.

DAVID: We can make guesses, but it doesn't get around the fact that a designer is required.

As always, you try to divert attention from the non-sense of your interpretation of evolution by pretending that any other interpretation somehow denies God. It doesn’t.