Bacterial Intelligence and Evolution (General)

by David Turell , Friday, May 10, 2019, 20:39 (2022 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I simply say: it was God's choice of method.

dhw: And I say how do you know, and why do you assume that he chose a method you cannot understand whereas there are alternatives which you can understand?

We have exhaustively discussed all the alternative reasons in the past. Why try to repeat them? I've simply chosen to accept God's choice of method to create what He desires to create.

dhw: I don’t make a decision; I offer alternatives, all of which – as you have repeatedly agreed and in contrast to your fixed interpretation – make for perfectly logical interpretations.

DAVID: I would change your bolded statement to say : 'I can't make a decision', and I would add you have the absolute right not to.

dhw: Fair enough. That is no defence of your insistence that only your decision can be valid, even though you have no idea why your God would have chosen the method you attribute to him.

DAVID: I don't have to know why He made he choice He did. Only you want it.

dhw: Again you take it as a fact that he chose to specially design thousand of non-human life forms to eat or not eat one another until he finally specially designed the only thing he wanted to specially design: H. sapiens. I want to know what logical reason you can find for this interpretation of his choice – but you have no idea.

History tells me, if God is in change, and I believe He is, that what you have described is what He chose to do. I don't find a need to interpret known history, and just accept it as God's choice. I repeat, for some reason you want an interpretation, when any other thought would be an unsubstantiated guess.