DAVID: Cosmology: milky way size is enormous (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, July 04, 2019, 21:12 (1970 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Your version of my view of God does not recognize that I think God decided to create humans through the process of evolving them from bacteria. All the odd branches of the bush of life create econiches for food supply. Nothing illogical. You are simply disagreeing with what I think was God's methodology. You view of God is not my view.

Your God, if he exists and if we accept common descent, would have decided in one way or another to create ALL life forms through the process of evolving them from bacteria, and indeed you have him specially designing them ALL by preprogramming or dabbling them. So in your version he says to himself: “I only want to specially design H. sapiens, and so I will specially design the whale’s flipper, the cuttlefish’s camouflage, the monarch’s lifestyle and the weaverbird’s nest etc. so that they can all eat or not eat one another, and then I will specially design lots of hominins and homos before I specially design the only thing I want to design, which is H. sapiens.” And you find this logical.

DAVID: They [ID-ers] don't deal with my thoughts, which I have extrapolated from their beliefs. I've had a personal discussion with Behe, but we did not touch on these points.

dhw:Of course they don’t and you didn’t. You extrapolate your illogical theory from your belief in God and your very individual concept of his nature, purpose and method of fulfilling his purpose. You share the ID-ers’ belief that the complexity of life indicates the existence of a designer, and that’s all. And you still can’t find any scientists, philosophers or theologians who support the above interpretation of your God’s thoughts and deeds.

Note the entries of today:

Thursday, July 04, 2019, 20:38 and Thursday, July 04, 2019, 19:51 Their postion is quite clear and reflecting mine.