Evolution: fish to land animals transition (Evolution)

by dhw, Saturday, December 05, 2020, 07:57 (1448 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: How could ALL the ecosystems, 99% of which had no connection with us, have been necessary for us? Why do you keep ignoring your own statements: “The current huge bush of food is NOW for humans NOW. There were smaller bushes in the PAST for PAST forms.” “Extinct life has no role in current time.”

DAVID: Once again you are slicing and dicing evolution into time periods, as if an old period doesn't precede a new period. It is a continuous process from bacteria to now.

Evolution IS divided into time periods, and each period produces its own life forms and econiches and food supplies, and time is continuous, and of course old periods precede new periods. BUT THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN 99% OF PAST LIFE FORMS/ FOOD SUPPLIES AND PRESENT LIFE FORMS/FOOD SUPPLIES. Please read your own bolded quotes above. Hence it is absurd to argue that all life forms and food supplies were “part of the goal of evolving humans” even though 99% of them had no connection with humans!

DAVID: God as creator can do anything He wants. He created life and evolved it to reach us. All His choices of action. End of argument from a theistic viewpoint.

Yes, if God exists, he can do anything he wants, yes he evolved life, yes it reached us. But that does not mean he directly designed every life form, and if he did, it does not mean that every life form was “part of the goal of evolving humans” even though 99% of them had no connection with humans! You keep using vague generalizations in order to avoid facing up to the fact that that your interpretation of his goal and his methodology makes no sense. But you are determined to stick to it and to keep pretending that it is logical by leaving out those parts of your theory that make it illogical. Time to end this game?