bacterial intelligence: they signal electrically in biofilm (Animals)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 17:13 (2439 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: God was obviously prepared when He gave humans the degree of consciousness we have. You can't extrapolate that willingness to anything before He achieved his goal.

dhw: Nor can you assume that he did not have that willingness before humans came on the scene. These are two different theistic hypothesis – God in complete control until evolution reached Homo sapiens, or God deliberately allowing evolution to run its own course (though of course he could dabble if he wanted to). The latter fits perfectly with the higgledy-piggledy bush of comings and goings, and you cannot claim you know that your God did not willingly relinquish control.

If God wanted a directed evolution, as I believe He did, then His release of any control would have been with guidelines, as I've suggested in the past.