Unanswered questions (General)

by David Turell , Sunday, August 25, 2019, 14:58 (1915 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: So God says to himself: “I have only one goal, which is to design H. sapiens, but I am timeless and so instead of pursuing my one goal, I shall postpone it and therefore I have to design lots of other life forms, lifestyles and natural wonders so that all these life forms can eat or be eaten by one another until I decide to do the only thing I actually want to do. And David Turell alone shall realize that although even he has no idea why I should think this way, which defies all human logic, that is because I am not human.”
[…] please don’t say it’s a distortion unless you are prepared to say which parts of it do not correspond to your theory.

DAVID: Your characterization of God is totally not my vision of God. […] As you quote God, the one accurate statement is that He is not human.

dhw: So now you are saying that H. sapiens was not his only goal, he is not timeless, he did not decide to take 3.5 billion years to start the process of evolving H. sapiens, he did not have to design other life forms so that they could eat or be eaten by one another until he had “covered” the time he had decided to take to fulfil his one and only goal. Fine. That means goodbye to a theory that is totally illogical by your human standards and mine.

DAVID: I've said none of what your interpretation of my statement states!

dhw: You have said that the only accurate statement is that God is not human. That means all the other statements are inaccurate! Please tell us exactly which ones.

Your statement is a characterature of my meaning.

DAVID: Of course He wants to evolve humans and the length of time the evolutionary process takes makes no problem for Him, as He is timeless. How did you get so confused? I was dismissing your version of God.

dhw: You were dismissing my summary of your fixed beliefs concerning your God’s one and only purpose and method of achieving it. The above is not “my” version of God, but my version of your version of God, which you say is inaccurate, and so again I ask you to tell us which of the individual details are incorrect.

See above.

dhw: No, I do not view him as impatient or illogical. I am proposing that H. sapiens was NOT his one and only goal, and he did NOT have to design other life forms to eat or be eaten in order to cover the time he had decided to take etc.. And I am proposing that since, by your own admission, this combined purpose and method which you have imposed on him defies logic, maybe your personal reading of his mind (which I have summarized above) is wrong.

DAVID: My interpretation is perfectly logical and I have [not?] said otherwise, except as you garble my comments.

dhw: And yet you keep telling us that God’s logic is different from human logic (aren’t you human?) and that you yourself have no idea why he chose evolution - which for you = specially designed the whole evolutionary bush, including every non-human life form, lifestyle and natural wonder - in order to “cover” the time until he specially designed the only thing he wanted to design: H. sapiens.

Not to 'cover time'. It had to take time.