Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 28, 2023, 17:48 (121 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Your experimenting God has the same 99.9% failure rate from the same evolution process! An omnipotent God does not need to experiment or change His mind.

dhw: More and more dodging. 1) Your complaint was about humanization, but you agree that your God enjoys creating and is interested in his creations. That is a possible motive. Ignored. 2) If God’s purpose was to create us plus food, you have him deliberately creating 99.9 out of 100 species that have no connection with his purpose. Daft. I have him experimenting in order to get the right formula. His designs all worked, so I wouldn’t call them failures, but you are right, he is not all-knowing and all-powerful. In my view, that is nothing like as daft as deliberately doing the wrong thing. Ignored. 3) Experimenting or creating a free-for-all in order to enjoy generating new ideas and making interesting new discoveries explains the whole history of evolution, and is neither messy nor cumbersome nor inefficient. And it has been completely successful. Ignored.

Never ignored. Your bumbling God does not know His goals if any. Experimenting is a blind process amazingly just like your favorite Darwin's chance process. We see a fixed evolutionary process in two opposite ways. Your God drifts along, while my purposeful God knows exactly what to do and does it.

DAVID: All a fully humanized personality you would invent as a God. Philosophers of religion would reject Him, as in 'How to think about God', Adler's book.

dhw: How can an immaterial, eternal creator of a universe and of life be “fully humanized”? You make a mockery of language. No philosopher of religion KNOWS how to think about God, and I wish you would stop hiding behind Adler, who according to you does not even deal with your totally illogical theory of evolution other than to use human uniqueness as proof of God’s existence (not proof of your theory).

Adler accepts and uses Darwin's chance evolution theory exactly.

DAVID: My inability to know God's reasons for evolving us does not negate my conclusions that humans were His goal.

dhw: Your inability refers to your not being able to find a single reason to justify your illogical theory that an all-knowing, all-powerful God would deliberately design 99.9 out of 100 species that had no connection with his purpose.

If God is in charge, He created the evolutionary history we follow with a demonstrated 99.9% extinct.

DAVID: God is not a blunderer. He used a messy evolutionary system to successfully produce us.

dhw: I agree that God would not be a blunderer, and that is why I question a theory that makes him into a “messy”, “cumbersome” and “inefficient” designer.

My view of God is my view.

DAVID: Your usual complaint that God should not have evolved us. But He didn't use direct creation, did He, reserving that for the Cambrian?

dhw: I have never said he should not have evolved us. I regard evolution as a fact. Your insistence that he directly designed our ancestors during the Cambrian simply tells us that every pre-Cambrian species was irrelevant to his purpose.

That pre-Cambrian forms developed necessary biochemistry for the Cambrian is totally ignored as usual.