Unanswered questions (General)

by dhw, Saturday, May 18, 2019, 11:50 (2014 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: [...] you have “no idea” why your God would choose this method of designing H. sapiens.

DAVID: I simply accept it as God's choice.

dhw: You do not accept it as God’s choice. You accept your own interpretation of God’s choice, even though you have no idea why he would make such a choice.

DAVID: We view God entirely differently. As stated in the other thread, God has the perfect right to decide to evolve humans from previously evolved organisms.

Which does not explain why he also “evolved” (which according to you means specially designed) a billion other non-human life forms, lifestyles and natural wonders.

DAVID: I have explained over and over the need for ecosystems to feed the existing individuals in ongoing evolution.

And that has nothing whatsoever to do with the question of why an always-in-control God specially designed all these econiches and non-human life forms etc. when his only purpose was to specially design H. sapiens. You simply refuse to acknowledge that it is the COMBINATION of your hypotheses that makes no sense, even though you admit that you have “no idea” why he would have chosen your “method”.

dhw: I accept our exceptionality. I do not accept that your God specially designed every single life form, and did so in order that they should eat or not one another until he specially designed H. sapiens.

DAVID: Fine, noting you don't accept God, but don't reject Him either. that makes your view of Him different than mine.

dhw: An agnostic has just as much right as a theist to interpret a possible God’s purposes and methods, and my agnosticism does not in any way invalidate the arguments I advance against your own personal interpretation of these. In fact I suspect quite a few theists would have trouble “accepting” your version of your God’s choice.

DAVID: I have my own personal view of God.I doubt many other theists would agree with me. This is not an election of concept by a vote of views

My point was that my agnosticism is totally irrelevant to the arguments I advance against your personal and illogical interpretation of your God’s purpose and method. Clearly other theists would also disagree with you. Let's just stick to the arguments.