FloydLee
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Joined: Sep. 2009
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| Quote | | If God is timeless, then it all unfolds to the majesty of his great plan, surely? |
Very interesting you should word it that way, because the existence of "the majesty of His great plan" WRT biological origins is exactly what evolution denies.
By claiming that there's a God whose majestic great plan includes evolution, you've just said that God is the required explanation for origins. Which evolutionists Mayr and Olford already told you evolutionary theory means that God is NOT required as a explanation for origins.
By saying "the majesty of His great plan", you're also directly invoking Teleology and conscious forethought---which again, evolutionary theory itself DOES NOT admit. No-Teleology-No-Conscious-Forethought, remember?
And there's a third major problem with what you said, which multiple evolutionists have brought up already, everybody from Monod to Dawkins to Rosenhouse. It goes something like this:
| Quote | | "(Natural) selection is the blindest and most cruel way of evolving new species, and more and more complex and refined organisms..."---Jacques Monod |
| Quote | "Evolution by natural selection, you see, is an awful process. It is bloody, sadistic, and cruel. It flouts every moral precept we humans hold dear.
It recognizes only survival and gene propagation, and even on those rare occasions where you find altruism and non-selfishness you can be certain that blind self-interest is lurking somewhere behind the scenes. All of this suffering, pain and misery, mind you, to reach a foreordained moment when self-aware creature finally appeared.
What theological purpose was served by all this bloodsport? If humans were inevitable why didn't God simply fast-forward the tape himself, thereby sparing all of those animals that died horrible deaths in the preceding hundreds of millions of years?
....Reconciling evolution and Christianity is not as simple as theistic evolutionists often try to pretend."
---Jason Rosenhouse's Evolutionblog, "My Review of Only A Theory", June 21, 2008 |
Notice how, under critical examination by evolutionists, evolution does NOT make God's plan look "majestic" at all, but instead cruel and sadistic.
ANOTHER incompatibility.
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So here's the real deal: by suggesting that evolution is part of "the majesty of (God's) great plan", you have not only run afoul of evolution's clear teachings (Incompatibility #1 and #2), but you have actually introduced a FIFTH huge incompatibility, longstanding and intractable just like the others, between evolution and Christianity.
From now on I will be saying "The Big Five" instead of "The Big Four."
FloydLee
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