Unanswered questions (General)

by dhw, Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 10:10 (1962 days ago) @ David Turell

(Taken over from the thread on “panpsychism”):
dhw: Your efforts to defend your own theory of evolution (i.e. your always-in-control God “had to” design millions of non-human life forms in order to design the only thing he wanted to design) do not become more logical through your dismissal of other explanations involving your God’s possible human attributes (a) when these other explanations are totally logical, and (b) when you admit that we cannot know what human attributes your God has/doesn’t have.

DAVID: Of course we may some personality attributes in common with God. But we can only guess at what might be correct. Your hypotheses are following human logic. We cannot know if they are God's, is always my point.

And your point is correct in all aspects of this discussion: we cannot know if God exists, and if he does, we cannot know his motives for creating life and evolution. But you pretend that you do know: your fixed belief is that (a) he personally preprogrammed/dabbled every single life form, (b) that he did so in order that they should eat or not eat one another for 3.5+ billion years until (c) he specially designed H. sapiens, and (d) H. sapiens was his one and only purpose for creating life. These fixed beliefs are all “guesses”, but you refuse to consider other guesses because we cannot know the truth!

DAVID: Once again you gloss over my starting assumption that God chose to create through the process of evolution of all life to reach the goal of humans. Of course this is not history, but under my assumption, history shows what He did.

Once again, yes, history shows what he did (if he exists). And it does not show that he chose to create billions of life forms, lifestyles and natural wonders “to reach the goal of humans”. I am not glossing this over; I am pointing out (a) that it is not history, and (b) that it is not logical.