Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 16:37 (95 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Your question is a distortion of evolutionary math. To end with 0.1%, 99.9% died. Evolution happened, and my belief is God did it.
Later:
DAVID: My theory is based on analyzing God's works assuming God evolved us as His method of creation.

dhw: Yes, evolution happened, and if God exists, he used it as his method of creation. But you simply keep omitting your theory that he did it for the sole purpose of designing us plus our food and yet, according to you, he deliberately designed and then culled 99.9 out of 100 species that had no connection with us and our food. What is the “distortion”? Is that your belief or not? Please answer.

I have bolded the false part of your stated objection. I have previously modified my theory. Why do you purposely forget it??? God designed evolution to produce us and the diversity of life on Earth for our use.

DAVID: What is silly is your constant distortion of the meaning of evolving. Most have to die!!! God chose to evolve us and provide the Earth with a vast diversity of forms.

dhw: Evolution does not mean that species have to die!!! Evolution means that every species is descended from earlier species. We accept the fact that 99.9% died. But it is not a fact that your God designed them all, or that he designed them for the sole purpose of creating us plus food, or that he had to obey some self-inflicted rule that he must create and cull 99.9 in order to produce 0.1. Stop dodging! However, if he chose to provide the Earth with a vast diversity of forms, extinct and extant, we can joyfully discard your totally illogical combination of theories. Diversity unconnected with us and our food becomes an end in itself, which fits in beautifully with his enjoyment of creation and his interest in his creations. Gone is the single purpose (us plus food) which makes such utter nonsense of your previous theories. This looks promising.

The bold is promising agreement.

Bacterial spears (transferred from "More Miscellany, as it deals with "prejudice")

dhw: I offer an alternative to your rigid insistence that God controls everything.[...] I don’t even know if God exists, so I’m not sure why you think my thinking is rigid. I try to consider all possible explanations for why and how life has evolved.

DAVID: You do not see your own prejudices.

dhw: I've pin-pointed your preconceptions re evolution and theodicy. Now please open my eyes to pin-point my prejudices.

DAVID: Your concocted criticism of the method of creation that resulted in 99.9% loss. It was a success: 0.1% here to populate the Earth.

dhw: “Concocted”? YOUR theory is/was that your God’s method of achieving his one and only purpose was to design 99.9 out of 100 species that had no connection with his purpose – a method which you called messy and inefficient, and for which you can find no rational explanation. How does this indicate prejudice on my part?

Same old distortion of evolution's math. The 0.1% survival simply means 99.9%, as ancestors of 0.1% are gone. God achieved His goal. Humans run the Earth and use all its resources.