Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Monday, August 15, 2022, 17:54 (617 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Your psychoanalysis of me is wrong. My theories make sense to me, if not to you.

dhw: How can they possibly make sense to you if they make sense only to God?

DAVID: I guess I'm happy and feel at home to illogical beliefs.

dhw: Thank you for this honest admission. I’ll note it for future reference whenever you claim that your illogical theories make sense to you!

That was a 'tongue in cheek' comment. My view of God is perfectly logical.

DAVID: Back you go to humanizing God.

dhw: The second “e.g.” lists YOUR humanizations of your God at various times! But you can’t see that your guesses are just as humanizing as mine! And why not, since it is perfectly feasible that the creation could mirror aspects of the creator.

Yes, we are both humans imagining a God. but my God is highly purposeful and direct in producing His creations by evolutionary processes. By comparison, yours experiments, changes His mind and direction and enjoys watching a free-for-all advance evolution. Two very different forms of God.

DAVID: God did give cells some form change, but not speciation abilities.

dhw: How do you know?

I'll stick with current known facts of what cells can do to change.

Adler

DAVID: Adler would agree God's reasons make sense to God but we are not privy to them.

dhw: So presumably Adler would agree that your theories of evolution, which do not make sense to you (they make sense ONLY to God), would not make sense to him either.

DAVID: He analyzes as I do. Without reading his instruction book "How to think about God", from my secondhand comments about him, your still know nothing about him. You have no knowledge how a philosopher of religion approaches the issue of thinking about God.

dhw: If you can’t find any sense in your own theories, please don’t try to defend them by giving me a reading list.

DAVID: I'll stick with God's reasons for choosing to evolve us instead of directly creating us, are due to His own private reasons we cannot know. I'm sorry that fact disturbs you.

dhw: It is not even a fact that God exists, let alone that his one and only purpose was to create us and our food, or that in order to do so he created countless other life forms unconnected with us and our food, or that he created some species without precursors. You agree that your theories don’t make sense to you, so please stick to “feeling at home to illogical beliefs” and don’t pretend that they will make sense if I read Adler.

Adler and I both agree our theories are logical. WE have every right to analyze God's works as we do.