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by David Turell , Friday, November 18, 2022, 16:02 (734 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Above I explain I misunderstood the level of discussion of design at human level, not God level, and then you jump all over me as 'dodging'.

dhw: The subject is dead ends, as explained above. You agree that a God in full control would know how to design what he wanted to design. When I pointed out the illogicality of an all-knowing God designing countless life forms that had no connection with those he wanted to design, you told me I didn’t understand design theory. Why did you mention design theory if it was not meant to explain what I didn’t understand? It turns out that design theory entails experimentation – one of the three alternatives I have suggested as explanations for the dead ends! And so you promptly tell us that God does not experiment but is “direct”! Back we go: If he is “direct”, how do you explain all the dead ends?

As usual you ignore or have forgotten my discussion of dead ends to which you have previously agreed. Living forms disappear as evolution moves to new stages. Living forms must eat and are supplied by ecosystems. As living forms disappear so do ecosystems. This naturally creates dead ends. A continuously branching, designed evolution by God will have a definite direction to end in humans. But not just humans, but a giant bush of life supplying, we hope, enough food for humans. I can see a careful plan by God, which anticipates our current population of eight billion. Why can't you?