Making waves (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 17:25 (3975 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw: I do like a bit of clarity now and then, so let me approach this from yet another angle. Do you believe 1) that your God created humans from scratch, 2) that humans and chimps sprang from a common ancestor without any interference by your God, or 3) that your God grabbed hold of a few existing homochimps and personally manipulated their genome so that they would walk upright and grow big brains?-If your answer is 1) or 3), and purely to satisfy my curiosity, please tell us if you think he intervened to create Lucy, Neanderthal man AND homo sapiens.-DAVID: My guess is answer 3. He steered ape-forms into proto-human forms and let evolution finish the job.-Thank you. If there is a God, I would find such an experimental version of evolution more convincing than your earlier one of preprogramming for humans, as it allows for the higgledy-piggledy bush with all its apparently random comings and goings. So too, of course, does the version with humans as part of an unguided process of experimentation by the "intelligent cell/genome", no matter what may have been the source of the latter. -Our starting point was the claim made by you and Tony that the bible is not anti-evolution. Your Theory of Theistic-Creationist-Darwinian-Common-Descent Evolution probably takes us as far as we can go on that issue, unless Tony has something to add.