Balance of nature: global warming and ozone layer (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, January 10, 2025, 11:46 (12 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTES: 2the ozone layer plays a key role in preserving the planet's biodiversity.
And now we may have a better idea of why that took so long -- more than 2 billion years -- to happen.2

"According to a new, Yale-led study, Earth's early atmosphere hosted a battle royale between iodine and oxygen -- effectively delaying the creation of a stable ozone layer that would shield complex life from much of the sun's ultraviolet radiation (UVR)."

DAVID: another example of contingent processes which had to follow a certain course to give us the Earth we have now. Chance or design?

dhw: Why would a designer who wanted diversity have designed a battle which delayed this diversity for 2 billion years?

DAVID: God-thinking vs. human analysis. The whole process took a very long time. Why should it be shorter? Human impatience?

My question is not an analysis. Your human assumption is that your all-powerful, all-knowing designer wanted the present diversity, with humans as his ultimare goal. If you can’t think of any reason why he would design an obstacle to achieving his own purpose, maybe your human assumption is wrong. Or maybe there is a reason, but you can’t or won’t consider it if it contradicts your human assumption that he is all-powerful and all-knowing.