Return to David's theory of evolution again by request (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 27, 2024, 18:43 (91 days ago) @ David Turell

Per dhw's request, I'm returning to the prior entry to answer:

dhw: I’m going to try to bring some order into this discussion, which has degenerated almost into farce.

The farce is your making. Evolution had to cull 99.9% to reach today's surviving 0.1%. From a species standpoint humans are tiny part of the millions of species on Earth.

dhw: 1) David’s current theory, following Tony’s intervention: God designed every species that has ever existed and culled 99.9% of them in order to design humans and our food, and in order to put us in charge of everything on Earth and to use all of its resources. However, this was only part of his plan.

The usual misuse of 99.9% extinct. We are dealing simply with 0.1% surviving forms. That tiny percent is what is living on Earth. Tony and I view God's purpose as producing an Earth filled with species for our use. Everything on Earth today is here because of God's purpose.

dhw: \ 2) David has agreed on numerous occasions that 99.9% of species that ever lived had no connection with us or our food, i.e. current species (I can provide quotes), but also insists that 99.9% of them were the ancestors of ourselves and our food, i.e.current species. Mixed in with this explicit contradiction is the acceptable point that 99.9% of our ancestors and those of current species are extinct. This of course is totally different from saying that we and our contemporary species are directly descended from 99.9% of all extinct organisms.

Raup simply said that God's evolution produced a 99.9% extinction rate. That has morphed into all of these distortions about why what is here is here. The survivors are God's intended survivors for our use. Our species is a tiny percentage of all living species which are the 0.1% final survivors. We need to only discuss the 0.1%. It is so simple. From God's viewpoint make some humans and give them all the material and living resources they will need to prosper. Everything here is required to be here. Incidentally there is a calculated loss rate, since everything evolved from earlier forms. Forget the loss rate, it is just a statistical observation.