Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by dhw, Thursday, November 03, 2022, 08:26 (539 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID:The dead ends we have discussed are ecosystems that supplied necessary food at the time of their existence not what I have bolded above.

dhw: If I’ve understood you correctly, you are once more agreeing that the dead ends had nothing to do with your God’s one and only purpose, which was to design us and our food supplies, in contrast to other times in this discussion when you have insisted that every one was an “”absolute requirement” for us and our food. We are making progress, at least until you change your mind again.

DAVID: Evolution could not have continued without them.

dhw: Why not? According to you, the evolution of us and our food supplies did not begin until the Cambrian, and the relevant species arrived without any predecessors, after which they "evolved" into us and our food (plus lots more dead ends)!

DAVID: Evolution started before the Cambrian.

Of course it did! But according to your nonsensical theories, OUR evolution plus that of OUR food supply began in the Cambrian, when your God designed all the necessary phyla WITHOUT PREDECESSORS, although we and our food supplies are supposed by you to have been his one and only purpose from the very beginning! […]

DAVID: Simple usual answer: remember, my theory is 'God decided to evolve humans from Archaea’?

Minus the reference to God, that is the theory of evolution – all species originated from single-celled microorganisms! And that is why your theory that your God created our ancestors from scratch during the Cambrian contradicts your theory that his one and only purpose from the very beginning was to create us and our food. In one breath you tell us that evolution is a continuous process, and in the next breath you announce that there are “gaps” (the Cambrian) when your God started it all afresh.

DAVID: I'm here to represent God with God theories you don't accept.

dhw: I’m here to represent those of us who are unable to fix on any explanation of life’s major mysteries, and to examine the reasonableness of whatever explanations are on offer. If I may say so, you are doing a great job representing the theory that there is/was a designer (a possible God), but you are tying yourself in knots with your theories about his purpose and methods of achieving that purpose!

DAVID: Same answer. With God is charge, He chose to evolve us from Archaea, well before the Cambrian gap appeared.

Same answer. If your God exists, according to you he chose to evolve us and our food supply from species which he designed WITHOUT PREDECESSORS.