Goldylocks zone planet: very few must exist (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, March 12, 2017, 19:19 (2604 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I don't know, but if He set up an evolutionary system, He didn't ever have to experiment. Not authoritative if it follows the first premise.

dhw: I notice you have omitted to say that the purpose of all his plans and dabbles was to produce humans. I don’t know how “having to dabble” fits in with pre-planning but not with experimentation.

You know my thoughts about His purpose of humans. Why waste space? Dabbling only exists, in my mind, because I do not know how all-powerful he is. And you know that also.

DAVID: You keep repeating a wrong interpretation of my theory that He set up a continuous evolutionary process for the universe that produced solar systems on its own until ours appeared. Most theists agree with the thought that God can do anything. I'm one who is not sure of that. He obviously planned for our solar system.

dhw:I didn’t know your theory was that solar systems came and went of their own accord until ours “appeared”. I thought you thought your God specifically designed ours, and I wonder why he (had to) set up a system in which solar systems autonomously created and destroyed themselves for the sake of producing humans.

Your questions have helped my take my thoughts beyond the observation that God uses evolutionary methods, which is obvious from the history we see. If He is all-powerful then He shouldn't have to use evolutionary processes. So perhaps it is a choice, not a necessity. Either way it follows that He waited until our solar system appeared and arranged for life to appear.

dhw: NB If most theists disagree with your hypothesis, you can hardly use my agnosticism as an argument against my own.

Most theists follow the Bible. I am a theist like no other theist. And you are a pure agnostic like few others.