Let's study ID (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 08, 2021, 15:26 (954 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: It is only your opinion my theory is illogical. I see it as perfectly logical. I cannot read God's mind, just as you can't. I must judge god from His works and you know my judgement.

dhw: No, none of us can read God’s mind, but when I ask you why, if his only purpose was to create humans plus their food, he first created countless life forms and foods that had no connection with humans, you say it’s “perfectly logical” but you don’t know why and I should ask him. How can it be “perfectly logical” if you can’t explain it?

DAVID: It needs no explanation. He chose to evolve us in designed stages as history shows.

dhw: That is not what needs to be explained. What needs to be explained is why, if your all-powerful God’s one and only goal was to evolve [=design] us plus our food, he first evolved [designed] countless life forms and foods that had no connection with us. You have said you don’t know why and I should ask him. How can it be ”perfectly logical” if you can’t explain it? I have a feeling I have asked this question before, but I don’t seem to have had an answer.

I have answered many times: God chose the method of sequential design from Archaea to humans as His way of finally creating us. I cannot know His underlying thoughts/reasons for doing it that way. It is a perfectly logical assumption about an all-powerful God. Why does the inability to read His mind make my conclusion illogical? As usual your bolded query implies He should have directly created us.