Balance of nature: importance of ecosystems (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 04, 2019, 15:30 (2060 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: You've skipped over, as usual, God's choice of evolution to reach the human level.

dhw: We have dealt elsewhere and almost ad nauseam with YOUR choice of God’s purpose and means of achieving that purpose. Once again, balance of nature has absolutely no relevance to your hypothesis that he was unable to design H. sapiens until he had spent 3.5+ billion years designing anything but H. sapiens.

DAVID: You've admitted the need for a food supply necessary to cover the time evolution took until now. As usual you down play it because it doesn't fit your current suppositions as to God's choices. It is not my 'hypothesis that He was unable to design H. sapiens'. That is your twisted version of my thinking. All I can say is He used a delayed system of evolution for whatever are His reasons or possibly forced choices. Nothing illogical about that statement.

dhw: I “admit” that all forms of life need food, and food is necessary for life to go on! I do not admit to there being some sort of weird timetable demanding millions of life forms and econiches coming and going to enable life to go on until your God can at last design H. sapiens! As for your hypothesis, you keep varying it. You admit to not knowing why your God delayed fulfilling his one and only purpose for 3.5+ billion years, and you vacillate between the possibility of his being limited (and hence unable to do what he wants to do) or his being all-powerful, in which case you still don’t know why. Nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that life forms need food, which is true whichever of my different hypotheses you may subscribe to.

I cannot combine threads as you do. The answer is in the brain comparison thread today.