The Dodo Problem (Evolution)

by dhw, Saturday, November 27, 2010, 11:57 (5109 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: Then what was the point of the dodo?-DAVID: Based on extremeophiles, life was created to be tenacious, pop up everywhere, to be sure evolution of life survived to create us. You persist in questioning the UI's reasons for this approach. I agree, there are easier methods by our brains' reasonings, but there may be a reason we don't understand as yet. More research is needed and such research continues to go on. It is like discussing the backward human retina. New explanations have appeared recently. The UI explanation of guided evolution fits what we know now.-It's worth repeating that your interpretation of the evolutionary process ... a single mechanism automatically developing into all its branches ... fits in perfectly with the atheist scenario minus a UI. Your original mechanism is designed, theirs comes about by chance. It has to be a possibility. But there is a huge gap between life "popping up everywhere", and being SURE life would survive specifically in order to CREATE US (= the UI's scattergun approach). If our brains tell us there are easier methods, but there may be a reason we don't understand as yet, why dismiss alternative theories to your own that require no such reason? Evolution proceeded by shooting out branches in all directions. This may be because God was trying different things to see what would happen (= experimenting and improvising), or because he had a particular aim in mind but wasn't sure how best to achieve it (= experimenting). Both alternatives "fit what we know now". There is no gap in either of them, they explain precisely how God might have arrived at us humans through "branching", and therefore they require no unknown reason. They merely require an adjustment to your insistence that God had everything worked out from the very beginning. My apologies for being as stubborn as you!