Cosmology: how the universe evolved (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, October 21, 2017, 15:12 (2371 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: There is no question the universe evolved from its beginning to its current composition. God does not use instant creation!

dhw: It’s good to see you defending evolution against instant creation. It is the bedrock of Darwin’s theory.

DAVID: I have always stated God uses evolution in every process.

dhw: I thought your explanation for the Cambrian was an almighty dabble of instant creation, since species appeared to spring from nowhere. But I may have misunderstood.

DAVID: First life also is an almighty dabble, remember? Dabble and evolve.

dhw: Agreed (with my theist’s hat on). So you do think the Cambrian explosion was a dabble of instant creation. And yet you “have always stated that God uses evolution in every process”. So now we have God capable of instant creation, but the one species he really, really wants to create has to evolve in lots of different stages, and very strangely so does the whale. And all these different stages of human and whale are necessary in order to keep life going until he can produce the one species of human he really, really wants to create, which is Homo sapiens, although he is perfectly capable of instantly creating species when he feels like it.

DAVID: That is the way I see the history under God's guidance.

I know. And the more we examine it, the more illogical it becomes!