Evolution took a long time (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, January 23, 2017, 16:05 (2643 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: I am well aware of your objections even to the theistic version of my inventive mechanism hypothesis, which I accept, but as an explanation of evolution I find it infinitely more logical than a mechanism that has to pass on billions of divine computer programmes for all solutions, innovations and natural wonders, or your God personally teaching bacteria to solve problems and weaverbirds to build nests, all for the sake of producing humans. And I’m afraid that rejection on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of the mechanism applies just as much to your hypothesis as to mine. Double standards.

DAVID: Your theistic inventive mechanism constitutes a judgement of God's software writing ability: You want organisms to use His IM sequentially to conduct evolution and I think He could have written the software for all of it from the very beginning. Not double standards but two differing judgments of God's ability.

My hypothesis has absolutely nothing to do with God’s capabilities. I am simply looking for the most likely explanation of how evolution works, and my theistic version seems to me more logical and infinitely less convoluted than yours. Ah well, this makes a change from the argument that mine is unacceptable because there is no evidence for it, whereas yours is acceptable even though there is no evidence for it. (Double standards.)