Innovation; Just for dhw (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 22, 2015, 18:40 (3058 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw:Still wearing my theist hat, I ask the same question. Why so many, and what was the point of all those that died out? You have now acknowledged the possibility that your God had to experiment in order to get to humans. Two explanations: 1) the explosion of phyla was not in aid of humans at all: they worked out their own evolution. Humans were an afterthought. 2) He wanted to create humans, didn't have a clue how to do it, and blundered through all those species which he then had to discard.-You can conjure up all the possible God thoughts you wish. Humans are here as the pinnacle of evolution
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> dhw: These discussions are invaluable to me, though. The vast range of your own knowledge, coupled with that of BBella, Tony, Matt, George and many others down through the years, has immeasurably deepened my own awareness of the mysteries of life and the universe, even if I am as far as ever from solving them! -Solving with absolute proof is impossible.-> dhw: Romansh has hit the nail on the head in his post under “Golden Ratio”: “I like the analogy of our knowledge being a little bit like cosmic inflation. While our "knowledge" increases in leaps and bounds; our ignorance, the boundary between what we know and don't know also increases.” The perfect summing up.-Yes!