David's theory of evolution Part Two (Evolution)

by dhw, Monday, December 02, 2019, 13:59 (1600 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Goals can always be delayed if there is good reason. […]

dhw: But you can’t find one! I have offered you two good theistic reasons that allow for your goal and your methodology: he didn’t know how to create an organism with all our god-like powers, and so he kept experimenting. Or life was one gigantic experiment, and humans only came into his mind late on in the process.

DAVID: Pure humanizing again. God knows exactly what He is doing.

dhw: how do you know what God knows? Your God “very well could think like us”, and yet you “know” that he already knows how to create H. sapiens, you “know” his one aim is to create H, sapiens, you “know” he has “good reason” to delay creating H. sapiens – though you have no idea what that reason might be – and so you “know” he has to create billions of non-human lifeforms, econiches, lifestyles, strategies, econiches before he starts creating the only thing he wants to create! All of this is pure guesswork, and you admit that it defies human reasoning.

DAVID: Your thinking and mine is totally contaminated by religious teaching. God is another name for the designer. This is the ID approach. The designer must be able to create evolution with all its complex intricate forms. And the evident design proves how brilliant he is. This is why Dawkins says don't fall for the trap of accepting a designer behind the design. I've accepted and try to ignore my childhood teachings. This means I have to accept evolution as the designer's work. That is my human reasoning.

Neither your theory nor my alternative theistic theories have anything to do with religious teaching, and once more you are trying to evade the illogicalities of your own theory through generalizations which are perfectly reasonable: if God exists, yes he is a brilliant designer, and yes he chose evolution, which is his work. What is not reasonable is the list of combined bolded theories above, which according to you is not illogical so long as you do not try to apply human reasoning to the actual history (which means the bush of life, with H.sapiens the latest arrival).

DAVID: You are hung up in your thinking because you have admitted you can see the design, but reject the possibility of a designer. That is our only difference.

Our difference here is in your attempt to kid yourself and us that you know your God’s purpose and methodology, as summarized above in bold.