Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 19, 2022, 16:26 (733 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: 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.

dhw: So far, so good – except that your use of the word “naturally” subtly omits your fixed belief that your God deliberately designed every living form that came to a dead end.

There is more than one way to use the word naturally. I don't need to list the synonyms.

DAVID: 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.

dhw: Yes, there are continuous branches that have led to humans and to our food. Those branches were NOT dead ends. Your problem is all the branches that WERE dead ends, i.e. which did NOT lead to us and our food, but which you say your God deliberately designed because they were necessary for him to design the branches that DID lead to us and our food. Please stop dodging.

You've repeated a good view of my theory. Whatever is here God designed. What is the dodge???

DAVID: I can see a careful plan by God, which anticipates our current population of eight billion. Why can't you?

dhw: I can see that all the specially designed dead ends that did NOT lead to us and our food, cannot have been necessary as preparation for your God to design the branches which DID lead to us. Why can’t you? Meanwhile, you have also dodged the rest of the paragraph at the start of this thread, in which I point out that you have inadvertently agreed to the theory of experimentation, but then backtracked in favour of direct design, as if all the dead ends were direct design of us and our food!

Why can't you remember my 'backtrack' was carefully explained as a misunderstanding of who was designing, me or God. Whatever is here God designed. Whatever was 'then' God designed.