gbrooks9
November 10, 2018, 1:02pm
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jongarvey:
All the talk about God “employing” chance, or “knowing in advance the result of chance events” and so on are more parsimoniously explained by saying that these chance events are, in fact, divine choices. Suddenly, God has poofed ontoloigical randomnness out of existence simply by doing stuff.
@jongarvey ,
Your inscrutable writings are always exquisite! But what the heck are trying to say? I was following you until you threw your favorite “T.hread D.etonation D.evice” (TDD!):
Please go to my prior posting in the thread link (below):
@Eddie (@T_aquaticus , @swamidass )
Your ability to establish a “speculation as a possible outcome” never ceases to surprise me! Why do I say that?
Because i suddenly realized that you were NOT saying what i thought you were saying! Please look at the section i quoted for this posting.
If i hadnt already thought through to this point (using my own vocabulary), i never would have recognized the very same idea couched in your own words!!
@eddie , you would have made a great lawyer! You wrote this:
"If Behe had wanted to say that evolution could not produce new body plans, etc., without miraculous intervention, it would have been quite easy for him to say so in the book."
More than once, i have pointed out the impossibility of using science to confirm an ID stance - - IF the stance is stated like this:
[1] What if God could see for Himself that natural/lawful evolution COULD create flagella for one-celled life with ENOUGH time.
[2] For the flagella case, ENOUGH time could be a …
and tell me your reaction to my analysis at the end of the posting - Paragrah [5] Option “i”
Thanks!