More "miscellany" (General)

by David Turell @, Saturday, February 12, 2022, 16:37 (775 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Your distorted view of evolution doesn't answer my point. So I'll ask. Don't you believe evolution is stepwise?

Yes.

DAVID: Doesn't a new stage appear built on the past?

Yes.

DAVID: Humans are a result of all those past stages, aren't they?

dhw: No. Humans are the result of one line or branch of past stages, not “all”. Thousands of other branches led to thousands of other life forms, most of which never had any connection with humans or with our food. Hence the illogicality of your theory that your God’s one and only purpose was humans and our food and so he designed countless forms that had no connection with humans and our food.

The connection is the huge requirement for a food supply. You admit it must exist and then try to diminish its importance. All the ecosystems layer one upon the next to support the need for consuming energy.

DAVID: You complain about God using all those stages when all He wanted was some humans walking around the Earth. He wasn't impatient, but your desired human version of Him is!!!

dhw: I do not complain about him “using” all those stages. I complain about your theory that he designed all those other stages of all those other branches, which had no connection with us or our food, as his “roundabout” way of fulfilling his one and only purpose of designing us and our food. I do not see him as impatient, and I certainly do not see him as less efficient than us humans in setting about achieving his goal(s) whatever they may be, and I do not believe in a theory the basis of which is a conviction that God’s logic has to be totally illogical by our standards.

Not 'our' standards, but your personal humanizing misinterpretation of how to think about God, as I was taught by Adler.


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