Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, February 24, 2017, 22:31 (2829 days ago) @ dhw

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.

dhw: 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.

But what you have written makes perfect sense to me. He wanted humans, and He conducted the evolution of the bush of life to get there.

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

dhw: 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.

Isn't a designer required if chance won't work?