odds of evolution

[JMT]

To rephrase that, the more we learn and understand, the smaller your god of the gaps becomes.

What you are doing right now is abdicating your and our ability to learn and understand every time you fill in the unknown with the supernatural.

Thirdly, how do you know if is your triune god that is reasponsible for this design? Why is it not Brahma or any other creator deity that humanity has imagined over the ages?

The thread is about evolution and you’re just avoiding the issues. Evolution in a biological macro-sense is a crude and terribly deficient model for explaining organisms.

 

[jjvw]

Besides, in evolutionary biology, why would an organism waste energy to build a long, circuitous route for a nerve when a shorter path is available? That doesn’t fit the mythological story of evolution.

The laryngeal nerve fits within the theory of biological evolution quite well because there is no claim of perfect design. A distant common ancestor did not have the circuitous pathway we frequently see today and is greatly exagerated in giraffes. Had you bothered to look at why I even brought this example up you would see that to correct this pathway, a designer would need to pass the nerve through to the other side of the aorta to eliminate the backtracking. Evolution cannot to that, the we get what we see today.

Evolution is a process of repurposing and adapting in ways that only need to be good enough to survive long enough to pass along an organism's genes. Evolution is not the survival of the fittest. It is the survival of the good enough.

 

[JMT]

And p.s. I know you @jjvw didn’t start this thread, but for whoever started it, they have whole forums that are dedicated to this and related topics that have been going on for decades, so you can go there and discuss and read all the arguments you want.

EDIT: and to respond to your post just above. I’m not interested and I think your response is poo.

 

[jjvw]

The thread is about evolution and you’re just avoiding the issues. Evolution in a biological macro-sense is a crude and terribly deficient model for explaining organisms.

The proposed alternative is that a god did it.

 

[JMT]

Yall can have your fun. Not interested in your responses. More fun elsewhere.

 

[jjvw]

Yall can have your fun. Not interested in your responses. More fun elsewhere.

You have too much at stake in your position to allow it to be questioned too much.

 

[jjvw]

Assuming what you are trying to prove.

I am not trying to prove anything. What I am doing is disprove the assertion of an intelligent designer. Further than that, I am disproving the even more specific assertion that the intelligent designer is somehow a 3500 year old Sumerian storm diety that was repurposed by an ancient tribal people who would become the Israelites.