How I came to believe (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, October 06, 2015, 18:05 (3124 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: ...yet again here is Darwin's conclusion, taken from my edition of Origin: “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one.” Please explain your objections to this.
> DAVID: Why do some of the editions contain the phrase you quote? Did Darwin vacillate in his opinion about God?
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> dhw: I can't read Darwin's mind. ....Now, will you please tell me your objections to his conclusion. If you have none, will you please join me in agreeing that it is wrong to misrepresent Darwin's theory of evolution as “atheism's creation myth”.-Simple. Tony views evolution as God's individual creations. I view evolution as a theistic form of creation. The author is in the same mind-set in viewing evolution. Darwin's unproven, non-workable theory only provides for an explanation of the appearance of common descent, which from body forms (phenotypes) looks valid. However, one of the major problems is trying to make a bush of life from genetic studies and it doesn't really work very well. Research is not complete, but there are enormous unexplained skips and jumps, suggesting guidance:-http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150918180310.htm-Another summary from the ID site:-http://www.uncommondescent.com/tree-of-life/encyclopedia-of-the-tree-of-life/