Evolution: development of the elephant trunk (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 08:54 (2216 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

dhw: (to David) “All untrue”? No, I don’t know that at all, and nor do you, since you believe in common descent. You and I both reject Darwin’s random mutations and gradualism, but that does not, in my view, lend any credibility to your own theory that 3.8 billion years ago your God preprogrammed every undabbled innovation, lifestyle and natural wonder, although his prime purpose was to produce the brain of Homo sapiens. But you would rather belittle Darwin than acknowledge that your own theory is full of unproven and unprovable suppositions.

TONY: What would?

DHW: A fair question, and I suppose it would have to be some kind of revelation. But you have ignored the end of the sentence you have bolded, which draws attention to what in my view is the sheer illogicality of having billions of organisms extant and extinct geared to the production of a single organ.

TONY: I should point out that asking you a question about one part of your statement does not indicate that another part of your statement was ignored, and I have never not acknowledged that it is impossible to prove or know God in an objective, scientific manner.

Agreed. I was only pointing out the context of my comment, which was what I regard as the illogicality of David’s anthropocentric interpretation of evolution. I suppose I was hoping you might add your own comment on his hypothesis!

DAVID: A twisted version of my theory. The goal is humans, the big brain an important part of that. Humans were/are the goal and we are here, not at all from Darwin's reasoning about how evolution works.

The goal is humans, and that is why your God invented the elephant’s trunk. Ah, but we must also remember, apparently, that God’s logic is not ours.