Return to David's theory of evolution PARTS 1 & 2 (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, April 29, 2022, 16:38 (937 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I'm not creeping anywhere from the concept God knows exactly what he wants He wants to create. I don't pretend. I accept exactly what history shows us God did. You simply cannot wrap your brain around such a concept.

dhw: I agree that God, if he exists, would know exactly what he wants. He could have wanted to create a free-for-all, or he could have wanted to create a being like himself and kept experimenting until he finally got what he wanted. Both theories would explain why he created the higgledy-piggledy history of life, as opposed to a theory which has him doing things you can’t explain.

I can explain everything God has created to my satisfaction. The higgledy-piggledy bush is the ecosystems of food supply. What you keep unreasonably harping on is I cannot give you God's reasons for his actions. We both have guessed at them.

Rare solar system

DAVID: We have agreed that God dabbling along the way is a reasonable concept.n

dhw: Yes indeed, extremely reasonable, as it explains the many changes of direction which indicate that he had not got everything planned from the start, or did not know exactly where he was heading.

Not at all. Simply adjustments as necessary to follow His purposes, set up well in advance.

“Humanization”

DAVID: Isn't the concept of evolution that the past leads to the future, the past the precursor? But you keep it sliced up in your mind.

dhw: That is a concept of time. You keep agreeing that most past life forms and food bushes did not lead to us and our food, so please stop hiding behind vague generalizations.

Your usual distortion. The past is the necessary precursor for the future. We can trace our appearance from bacteria.

Biochemical controls

DAVID: Of course He designed the system He wished to have. Thank you for recognizing all organisms are designed to die. I made exactly that point here years ago in response to some quote of yours that needed correction.

dhw: So why do you keep harping on about “errors” and your all-powerful God’s efforts – often in vain – to correct them?

You refuse to recognize the truth about our living biochemistry system. To repeat: trillions upon trillions of reactions occur every nanosecond. Therefore, errors are extremely rare. Your usual resisting bias is showing.