Behe on Shapiro: do these systems have a source? (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, March 24, 2019, 10:46 (2072 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Econiches supply food for evolution until human brains appear, and you know my point and keep beating your tired drum, in which you try go deny a distant connection in the process.

dhw: In your hypothesis human brains don’t “appear”. Your God specially designs them. And here you have your God specially designing changes to finches’ beaks in anticipation of environmental change. You’re right - I can see no connection, but perhaps you can explain to me why your God was unable to specially design the human brain without first specially adapting the beaks of one species of finch.

DAVID: This is a gross distortion of the probabilities of my views. We do not know, in any measure of fact, that God could not design the human brain until He worked with finches. I state that God choice this method of evolving through evolution. First evolution of all organisms occurs in parallel contemporaneous paths, so the path to humans was somewhere along the way when finches first came on the scene. Secondly, the need for econiches/ecosystems is well-established for food supply. Your comment points out that you seem to see single linear path to the human brain. What happened to the bush of life?

Sorry, but that is precisely the question I keep asking you! Econiches providing food does not explain why your God designed millions of them and adapted finches’ beaks (apparently in advance of the new environment) and designed the whole array of species mentioned under “vast new Cambrian explosion” if his one and only purpose was to design the human brain! And why “parallel contemporaneous paths”? Evolution has occurred along divergent paths at different times, so how does that support the hypothesis of humans as your God’s only goal? The bush of life is what makes your proposal so illogical. (See also “Big brain evolution”)