Balance of nature illustrated (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 15:27 (3361 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: ALL life is against odds, and we know the duck-billed platypus is here. I still don't understand what you mean by “life stays in balance”. The 99% of extinct species suggest that it doesn't. I can certainly accept Romansh's “interconnectedness”, but that would apply even if there were no humans on Earth.-Before humans got mixed up in covering the world, each environment had losses and gains of its inhabitants and life stayed naturally generally in balance. Organisms disappeared as new ones appeared, as the concept of natural selection tells us. Yesterday I saw an article that found foxes and cats introduced, by arriving humans, into Australia have killed off about 13% of all original strange animals known only to Australia which for millennia was so isolated. This shows natural balance vs. artificial disruption. I don't know what is so hard to understand.
 
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> DAVID: It seems as if you will accept design if I can prove a methodology to God's handling of evolution. I can't. Based on odds humans shouldn't be here. Since they are here, it is easy to assume God arranged it. Easy for me but not for you. So be it. 
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> dhw: I have never asked for proof, because we both know proof is impossible. I merely ask for coherent explanations. Yes, it's easy to assume God arranged it, and it's easy for an atheist to assume there is no such thing as God. What's not so easy is to explain how God did it or chance did it. You're happy to ask the atheist how chance could have done it, but complain if you are asked how God could have done it.-I'm not complaining. My explanations for my belief in God don't just hinge on the point that evolution might have been God's method. I look at all the other observations that chance does not allow for, those observations well-known to you. You don't accept chance either, so we can't be that far apart.
 
> dhw:That is a fair comment, and my own open-mindedness on the subject also incorporates other factors.-Please, let's hear some of your other factors to explain toe source of the BB, fine tuning, life's appearance, and the majesty of human intelligence.