New Miscellany 1: theories and future of evolution (General)

by David Turell , Friday, May 30, 2025, 18:46 (3 days ago) @ dhw

Evolution and “culling”

God did not tell me why He chosen to evolve us when direct creation is simpler.

DAVID: Evolution is not some mysterious process mismanaged by God. It is cumbersome and inefficient compared to direct creation.

dhw: And you have no idea why your all-powerful, all-knowing God chose to design and then cull 99.9 irrelevant species out of 100 in order to produce a species (plus food) he could have produced directly. Hence your ridicule of his inefficiency. Thank you for this confirmation.

You are welcome.

God’s human thought patterns and emotions

DAVID: Of course we know what our terms mean to us but NOT to God. We discuss Him at our level. It is a fact not a simple game.

dhw: When you suggest that your God enjoys, is interested, wants recognition, wants to be worshipped, may or may not love us etc. you are not asking whether he defines these words differently from the way we do, but whether he does or does not have the same thought patterns and emotions as we mean by those words. Please stop dodging.

Open your mind to accept God is not us and what we assign to Him may not mean the same thing to Him in our terms.

End of evolution?

DAVID: Evolution is over. […] What ‘new conditions’ do you imagine. I see none.

DAVID: This current episode of evolution is over. A new episode after a major change is possible.

dhw: If it is possible that there will be new episodes of evolution, then it is clearly absurd to say that evolution is over. Thank you. That should be the end of this discussion.

Please reread my response: "this episode is over". Any new evolution may be in a different form of it.