Innovation; Just for dhw (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, December 27, 2015, 14:27 (3053 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: You agree that both offer a rational explanation of the higgledy-piggledy bush of animal evolution, as opposed to your following statement under ”The biochemistry of cell adhesion...”:
DAVID: I have previously said I have no idea how/why God did this in the way He did. I firmly think He directed and managed the process and progress of evolution.

dhw: But you can find no flaw in the two theistic hypotheses I have offered. So maybe now we do have an idea how/why God did this in the way He did it.-DAVID: You may propose, but you go much further than I do. I can honestly agree your theistic theories are possible, but I think not probable. I chose not to look for the reasons you come up with. We have no idea how God did what he did.-We can only come up with hypotheses on all these subjects, and then test them against what we think we know. If you choose not to think about possible explanations for the gaps in your hypotheses, then of course you are free to do so. Many people choose not to think about any of the subjects we discuss on this forum, or about any viewpoint that is different from their own. Ah, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers (and sisters)....