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

by David Turell , Monday, May 02, 2022, 16:40 (934 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Perfectly fits my view from ID. I stand by my interpretations as quoted, not as dhw attempts strangely to twist the interpretations.

dhw: What twist? First you say that all past species and econiches were designed as preparation for us humans and our econiches, and then you agree that they were only designed for the past, not the present, and had no role to play in the present.

In the past not for the past!!!!

DAVID: In goal-oriented processes adjustments in design are minor modifications, not experimentation.

dhw: Moving in “totally new directions” is not minor modification! Are you now withdrawing your comment about the dinosaur extinction?

We do not know if Chixculub was directed or accidental.

Gaps by design

DAVID: A few days ago, I mentioned the design gap with the appearance of the radio following the telegraph. dhw commented his usual illogical thinking about a designer in action. The whole point is above. God, as an intelligent agent can make any gap He wishes. dhw's dismay about the Cambrian gap is logic down a rabbit hole. God's design of evolution is a God design, never related to Darwin's thinking. Therefore. obviously, can be different forms of the meaning of common descent. God can wish to evolve humans in His own way over time.

dhw: Of course God could make any gap he wished. He could do whatever he wanted. And so you have two problems: 1) both you and this author emphasize the designer’s ability to produce novelty that has no precursor, and since you stress that our species is descended from species that had no precursors, it makes no sense to claim that there is a direct line from bacteria to humans. Secondly, if he only wanted us and our food and can create species directly with no precursors, why didn’t he do so? Hence your extraordinary defence of your theory: “What I cannot explain is why God chose evolution over direct creation. Why can’t you accept that explanation?” Coupled with: “God makes sense only to Himself”, which denotes that your theory does not make sense to you.

My theory makes perfect sense to me, but not to you. God, in total control, can form an evolutionary process of His own design, not related to Darwinism which constantly infects your illogical thought. This type of 'common descent' is not Darwin's type. It has huge gaps when the precursor biochemical processes are ready for a gap. The gaps are jumps in body form (phenotypes). The gaps in the fossil record were weel-recognized years ago by Gould!!!

Dhw: If a theory does not make sense to you, then perhaps you should consider alternatives that do make sense to you. In our discussion above, you agree that your God makes adjustments as he goes along, even to the extent of going in “totally new directions”. This could hardly be a clearer endorsement of the theory that he was experimenting, or that he kept getting new ideas as he went along.

Back to your treasured human form of God who is wandering along. Any God wo can create our universe, knows exactly what He is doing.