Miscellany (General)

by dhw, Monday, July 26, 2021, 06:57 (1214 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: So now, instead of a 3.8-billion-year-old programme for every solution to every problem, you have him separately planting every future solution ad hoc to every problem that every individual life form will experience – until, of course, it becomes extinct, so he must have deliberately omitted to enclose instructions for the particular problem that makes them become extinct. And all these individual operations were designed as part of the one and only goal to design H. sapiens plus our food, and apparently this theory is based on science.

DAVID: I believe in the appearance of common descent from the way God evolved everything. When something is no longer needed for an advance it becomes extinct.

Let us remember that by “evolved” you mean individually designed. So he individually designed all the life forms that had no connection with humans to make it appear that they had descended from an earlier organism. And apparently extinction doesn’t take place when an organism is no longer able to cope with existing conditions, but when God doesn’t need it any more for the next step in his design of humans, although he had originally designed most organisms without their having any connection with humans anyway.

DAVID: It is logical that the Earth cannot hold everything ling forever. Wou ld you like to live with dinosaurs?

Same old puzzle for you: if your God only wanted humans plus their food, why keep filling the earth with organisms that had no connection with humans and that had to be killed off in order to make room for the only one he really wanted in the first place?

T-cells
DAVID: As above each new stage is designed for its future needs, based on an underlying very flexible genome code present in its initial design in bacteria.

dhw: A flexible genome code has to be present in all life forms if they are to evolve into something else. According to you, T cells respond to new events. I suggest that is the case with ALL cells and cell communities, and underlies the whole process of evolution. Every change is a RESPONSE to something new, as opposed to being pre-planned.

DAVID: They are designed to be as responsive as you describe.

Thank you. Exit the theory that cells are only designed to obey instructions set out for them before changes are required (= pre-planning).

Theistic evolution vs Darwinism [...]
dhw: Since I have constantly repeated my acceptance of the logic of ID, perhaps you will now do me the honour of assuming that I mean what I say!

DAVID: I know you do.

Thank you. Another non-argument put to rest.

DAVID: All of us accept common descent which is not an active issue.

dhw: Whenever you talk of “de novo” creation, you oppose the concept of common descent.

DAVID: 'Common descent' is the result/appearance of God designing successive stages of life.

Common descent is the theory that every organism apart from the first descended from earlier organisms. It is not life that undergoes successive stages, but organisms. If you say your God created species “de novo” there can be no link with preceding organisms.