Human evolution; a mosaic development: (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 08:19 (640 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: "These results complement an idea that is dominant in evolutionary anthropology: that there is no linear history of human species, but that different branches of our evolutionary tree coexisted and often intersected. "The breadth of the range of human diversity in the past has surprised anthropologists. Even within Homo sapiens there are fossils, such as the ones I mentioned earlier from Jebel Irhoud, which, because of their features, were thought to belong to another species. That's why we say that human beings have lived a mosaic evolution," he notes". (David’s bold)

DAVID: dhw has always wondered why so many types of pre-sapiens were evolved. Well, this study shows exactly that is what happened.

I am not questioning that this happened! I ask why a God whose one and only purpose was to design H. sapiens plus food proceeded to design all sort of life forms unconnected with H. sapiens plus food, and also designed all sorts of hominins and homos and then discarded them, although he was apparently perfectly capable of designing new species with no precursors (Cambrian).

DAVID: We are the result of a mosaic of potential final forms. dhw will wonder why God chose that method, and my obvious answer from the way I understand how to think about God, is that is the way God planned to do it for His own reasons.

Precisely. You have no idea why he would have chosen such a method in order to achieve the purpose you have assigned to him – your theories “make sense only to God” and therefore not to you.

DAVID: There is no reason to try to dig any deeper, but in dhw's confused way he will make an attempt.

You would obviously prefer not to dig any deeper, since you regard your own theory as non-sense. I don’t know why you regard my logical alternatives as “confused”, since it is you who can find no explanation for the bolded theory above (which “makes sense only to God”). As you have agreed, the above historical facts would fit in perfectly with the theory that if God did it all, he was experimenting – but no, you can’t accept that a God who certainly/probably/possibly has thought patterns in common with those of his creations could have such thought patterns in common with those of his creations.

In case it gets overlooked, I'd just like to repeat my request for your views on WHY your all-purposeful God might have set out with the one and only purpose of designing H. sapiens (plus food)