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

by David Turell , Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 18:08 (919 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: Thank you for acknowledging that your set of beliefs is fixed – i.e. rigid. At one time, of course you were flexible enough to consider ideas different from those you held originally, but now you have closed your mind. The result is a fixed belief which is so illogical that you are forced to acknowledge you cannot explain it and it “makes sense only to God”.

DAVID: I cannot explain God's works for you. I can only analyze them in view of the picture I have of a very purposeful God who knows His goals, and exactly how to reach them in vast contrast to your God-vision of a humanized bumbler. Of course, God makes sense to himself.

dhw: Correction: you cannot explain your interpretation of God’s works, and the quote is that your interpretation “makes sense only to God”, which means it does not make sense to you.

Wow!! What a scrambled-up interpretation. Finally, I can understand your problem. It makes perfect sense to me. I accept what God did for His own reasons, while not needing to understand His reasoning, which is obviously impossible. I've written this before, and don't understand your obtuse interpretation, exc opeet to point out you do not think about God as I do.

DAVID: A designer who is evolving organisms over time from single cells to us is running a continuous process under his control. There can be gaps in phenotype, but never in biochemistry of life, under his controls. That is an obvious explanation, while you torture quotes into meaninglessness. God's evolution is not Darwinian.

dhw: As I pointed out in bold in the same post, “the fact that all life is biochemical does not explain the gaps”. H.sapiens is a species, and while I am happy to follow Darwin’s argument that all species descend from earlier species (common descent), you emphasize the gaps which you believe denote speciation without precursors. This clearly breaks the continuity of speciation, and since you claim that we humans are descended from species that had no precursors, you contradict your own belief in continuity from bacteria to us, and hence your belief that we were your God’s one and only purpose from the very start.

Obtuse thinking again. Why was Darwin so concerned about the Cambrian gap? Because it didn't fit his theory or continuing your acceptance of his theory. A designer creating the phenotypical gaps does! I accept a designer and you don't

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dhw (concerning “humanization”): ...have you never heard of believers who think God watches over them, loves them, judges them, wants them to worship him etc.? You have frequently expressed your negative view of the way religions “humanize” God, but perhaps you don’t count religious people as “believers” and only you know how to think about God.

DAVID: Thank you for recognizing those religious folks are the ones I ignore in my thinking!!!

dhw: So please stop pretending that “we believers” accept your illogical theory of evolution and your blinkered way of thinking about God.

In conferences with ID folks, I know we think alike, much to your surprise. Accepting that design requires a thinking designer would solve all your confusion.