Unanswered questions (General)

by David Turell , Thursday, May 23, 2019, 18:59 (1790 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: God has the perfect right to decide to evolve humans from previously evolved organisms.

dhw: 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: Because that is how evolution works, from simple organisms to complex, which was God's choice of a creation process.

dhw: Yes, that is how evolution works, but it does not explain why your God designed billions of non-human life forms if his only purpose was to design humans!

DAVID: Why won't you allow me to have my own theological views? Your objections are totally illogical, once it is accepted that God chose to evolve everything, and you've agreed if He is in charge, He can do just that. What you want is a God who set evolution in motion and allowed it freedom to evolve any way it wanted. But in allowing for dabbles, you really admit God is in charge to do whatever He wants. Your approach is totally incomprehensible as applied to theism. It is either/or. God is in charge of evolution or He isn't. I view Him in total charge and managing every stage of evolution as we know it. It is my explanation of speciation.

dhw: Of course if he exists he can do what he wants. And I am fully aware that you believe he designed every stage of evolution, plus every lifestyle, plus every natural wonder, as under “sling shot spiders” and all your other entries describing biological complexities. The spider is a good example of your incongruous mixture of hypotheses:

DAVID: If this developed by trial and error (Darwin), the spiders would never have survived to perfect the method. Only design fits the process of development.

dhw: Why would a God whose only purpose was to design H. sapiens bother to design a sling shot spider? You simply refuse to recognize that it is the COMBINATION of your hypotheses that makes no sense. By all means have your God in total charge designing absolutely everything, but please don’t tell us that he did so for the sole purpose of designing H. sapiens. You have no idea why your God chose to design the slingshot spider as a method of designing H. sapiens - so maybe he didn’t design the spider, or maybe he designed it because he liked designing such wonders for their own sake.

You continue your illogical series of ideas about God. If God is in control of evolution then He created everything that appeared before He arrived at the speciation of humans. You are continuing to question why He chose to evolve humans. I don't know why, as I admit. But there is nothing illogical about my thoughts.