The Mind of God (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, February 12, 2015, 21:04 (3361 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I think this answer brings our view of evolution a good deal closer, much as I dislike the term “semi-autonomous”! I understand your conclusion that there is a designer, but if I believed in God, I would find the autonomous inventive mechanism a more satisfactory explanation of the higgledy-piggledy bush than the preprogramming or separate creation of every innovation and lifestyle.... indeed, if there is no God, organisms HAVE to invent themselves, even though I don't know of any scientist who has actually put it in those simple terms.-I still insist semi-autonomous fits work by a designer. Note my entry on CRISPR (bacterial immunity)
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> dhw: How can you judge what is "reasonable" or “ordinary” when we have nothing with which to compare our evolution?-We can judge by looking at the whole process. Small advances except the two biggest jumps are single to multicellular (Cambrian) and the human brain. Nothing else is as large.-> 
> DAVID: I am convinced God created life with the purpose of producing conscious humans. I can't take it further. You tell me why He did it if you can. I can't. I'm just glad he did.
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> dhw: If I were a believer, I could easily accept that he wanted to create humans, but I could not accept that evolution's higgledy-piggledy history denotes that it was all planned from the beginning to turn out the way it did. That is why you have your dilemma: you can't conceive of your God not being in total control, and yet you know that life's history does not fit in with your rigidly defined purpose. I'm also glad we're here, though, whether he did it or not.-All I can know is what I see, and then try to make it fit.