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> > DAVID: [i]I don't fit them together, just interpret what I see. [/i]
> > Later: [i]If God chose to evolve, and He did, and as humans are the goal as I see it, life had to eat during the 3.5+ billion years. Perfectly logical, but unacceptable to you for some reason I cannot see.[/i]
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> > dhw You yourself can’t understand why he chose to specially design 3.5+ billion years’ worth of innovations, econiches etc. in order to fulfil what you think was his one and only purpose of producing H. sapiens, even though you think he is always in full control. What you refuse to see is that your own mystification at such an indirect method might mean that your interpretation of the method or of the purpose could be wrong.
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> > History does not tell us that your God created the whale for the sole purpose of providing a new econiche in order to provide food until he could produce H. sapiens, which he could have done whenever he liked since he was always in full control. 
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> > DAVID: [i]New forms have to be designed to survive, or what is the purpose of these new organisms?[/i] And later: [i]Of course new organisms had to designed to survive or evolution stops.[/i]
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> > If they have to be designed to survive, how can you argue that survivability plays no part in the design?
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> > DAVID: [i]God designs us for survivability. If we didn't survive, what is the point of making us? My view is survivability does not drive evolution, God does.[/i]
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> > dhw: You have been on and on about evolution resulting from the drive for complexity as opposed to the drive for survival. I am pointing out to you that even if your God did design whale fins and baleens and 50,000 spider webs and the monarch’s migration and the cuttlefish’s camouflage, these all serve the purpose of enabling those organisms to survive. Therefore even in your hypothesis, survivability plays a major role in your God’s design, and hence in your God-controlled evolution.
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> One simple answer. God is in charge. He is the driving force behind evolution. Since that is the case all of the Darwin theory about survivability and the struggle to survive is out the window. That is no need for me to explain why God chose to evolve life to the point it is at. Of course each level of complexity He creates will survive until He moves on to the next more complex stage. From that viewpoint all of my theories make perfect sense. Of course, you don't look at it that way, so it makes no sense to you even  as you make your attempts at being theistic.