Return to David's theory of evolution (Evolution)

by dhw, Monday, November 21, 2022, 08:09 (528 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Living forms disappear as evolution moves to new stages. Living forms must eat and are supplied by ecosystems. As living forms disappear so do ecosystems. This naturally creates dead ends.

dhw: So far, so good – except that your use of the word “naturally” subtly omits your fixed belief that your God deliberately designed every living form that came to a dead end.

DAVID: There is more than one way to use the word naturally. I don't need to list the synonyms.

dhw: You usually use it as a contrast to your God’s purposefulness. It doesn’t matter. You are merely confirming your fixed belief that your God deliberately designed every dead end, knowing that it would not lead to the fulfilment of his one and only goal. Why would he do that? Only God knows – it certainly doesn’t make sense to anyone else.

DAVID: When you finally find out God's reasoning, tell me and the whole world!!

Nobody knows the objective truth, but different people offer different theories. We then discuss them to see how convincing they are. Your theory doesn’t even make sense to you, so I really don’t know why you’ve convinced yourself that it must be true and God must have his reasons for acting in such a nonsensical manner.

dhw: There is nothing wrong with the theory of experimentation – you have already agreed that it fits in logically with the history of life, as do my other alternatives. You reject them all because their “humanizations” are different from your “humanizations”. The fact that experimentation fits in with your concept of “design theory” is simply an additional observation, and we can leave it at that.

DAVID: Finally. It has all been repetitious for both of us and our followers.

At least it's good to know that the experimentation theory fits in with your own concept of design. Sadly, though, it won’t end the repetitive discussion concerning why you think your God would have deliberately designed all the dead ends which had nothing to do with what you believe was his sole purpose (us and our food). See your non-stop dodging on the “More miscellany” thread.