Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 03, 2022, 17:05 (538 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Evolution started before the Cambrian.

dhw: 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! […]

Preceding evolution to the Cambrian gap developed the necessary underlying biochemical systems to support the multi organ Cambrians. Also, the Earth's climate was evolving more oxygen in the atmosphere, as previously presented. Evolution is not stop and go but a continuous process of development from the past.

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

dhw: 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.

The Cambrian gap was first noted by your beloved Darwin.

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.

dhw: 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.

With God as designer no predecessors needed!!! That is the WHOLE point of this discussion. You cannot invert it to your purposes