Unanswered questions (General)

by David Turell , Monday, August 26, 2019, 17:35 (1914 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: 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.

DAVID: Your statement is a characterature of my meaning.

dhW: I have put all your fixed beliefs together to show why they are illogical. You know perfectly well that each one is accurate, and so it is the illogicality of their combination that makes you see your own version of events as a caricature. And yes indeed, it makes a mockery of all logic.

And I think it is totally logical that God chose to evolve all life, ending with humans. I have never understood why you think it is illogical.

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.

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

dhw: You wrote: “He knew those designs were required interim goals to establish the necessary food supply to cover the time He knew he had decided to take.”

Misinterpreted. I mean God knew a great length of time was to be involved and took that time to do all the evolving required. By 'covering time' I mean using it, not inventing creations just to pass time.