Darwinist ignorance, confusion & epigenetics (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 21:36 (5113 days ago) @ dhw

Of the two, I find the second far more convincing, as it covers the various gaps I listed at the end of my post of 18 November at 13.18. Your scenario leaves unexplained the need for all the extinct species, for all the long periods of stasis, and indeed for evolution itself, because if man was the goal right from the start, all the intervening stages were clearly superfluous. (What was the point of all those dead dinosaurs?) Since "we can only imagine His reasoning, based on what we see as factual information", what do you imagine was His reason for the delay and the wastefulness covering so many billion years?
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> The reason why I'm pushing this argument is that like yourself, I believe evolution happened, but if it was organized by a UI, I cannot for the life of me see why it would deliberately choose such a messy, wasteful, roundabout way of achieving its purpose. The mess seems to me far more consistent with a process that has not been planned beforehand. However, interestingly, your choice of Option 1 fits in far better with the atheist scenario: you and they start with a single mechanism, and the rest follows on of its own accord: an automatic, unbroken, unguided, self-regulating, messy, wasteful and roundabout progression from bacteria to human brain.-As I have said several times in other posts, if humans were the final goal, then answer to that question is so blindingly obvious that it is most often overlooked. It was done that way because it had to be done that way in order for humanity to survive. The basic sustenance of our bodies is dependent on all other life, which is dependent upon the earth, which is dependent on the solar system and all its many planets, which is dependent on the galaxy and all its many solar systems, which is dependent on the universe and all its many galaxies. Early life was an absolute necessity for preparing an inhospitable lump of rock, lava, and water into a livable planet. There had to be soil for plants, which would have required millions upon millions of years of microbial preparation for even the most tenacious of plants to have survived. There would have had to be vast quantities of plant life to sustain the first land creatures, which were every bit as vital for preparing the earth as their microbial predecessors. And most importantly, it had to become a system that could survive without constant micromanagement of every little detail.