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by dhw, Sunday, February 19, 2023, 12:03 (433 days ago) @ David Turell

David is constantly accusing me of distorting his theory, and so I will go through it point by point. David, please tell us which of these points is a distortion:

1) Your God does not control changes in the environment, such as forest turning into desert.
2) This means that he can only design organisms which will be able to survive under those conditions.
3) When conditions change again, 99% of his designs again fail to survive. This is due to his faulty design.
4) It is bad luck for the non-survivors that they are victims of your God’s faulty design.
5) You believe your God’s only purpose for creating life was to design H. sapiens and our food.
6) 99% of your God’s designs had no connection with his only purpose, which is why you call them “mistakes” and “failed experiments”, and hold him responsible for what you call the “mess “ of evolution.
7) Your God was perfectly capable of designing any species he wanted to without predecessors, but instead of designing his one and only purpose directly, he deliberately invented a method which he knew would force him into designing 99% of mistakes.

Meanwhile, in answer to points you have raised today:

DAVID: Every species survived until it went extinct. However, during their presence advanced biochemical processes were developed and were present in the next forms.

Any advances could only have been passed on by the 1% of survivors. The other 99% were dead ends, which you regard as being your God’s “mistakes”, resulting from his faulty designs.

DAVID: You fail to understand my view of God.

Correct. I do not understand why an all-powerful God, who could design anything he wanted to whenever he wanted to, would choose to fulfil his one and only purpose by deliberately designing life forms which he knew were mistakes that had no connection with his purpose. You have told us that your theory “makes sense only to God”, which means you don’t understand it yourself.

The discussion continues under “More Miscellany”, as many of the articles lead straight back to your theories.