[Mormons and Evolution] 12/02/2005 12:00:59 PM
This, however, isn’t really giving the engineers their full due, for they did, presumably, supervise the process and guide it according to their tastes by a manipulation of selective pressures and variability.
A difficulty in applying this to God's possible influence over biological evolution is that a very large part of an organism's environment is other organisms. (In fact I think in Darwin's original version the competition against other individuals of one's own species almost completely dominated.) Hence to influence evolution by influencing the environment would still amount to either designing or controlling other organisms.
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Posted by Christian Y. Cardall to Mormons and Evolution at 12/02/2005 12:00:59 PM
A difficulty in applying this to God's possible influence over biological evolution is that a very large part of an organism's environment is other organisms. (In fact I think in Darwin's original version the competition against other individuals of one's own species almost completely dominated.) Hence to influence evolution by influencing the environment would still amount to either designing or controlling other organisms.
Posted by Christian Y. Cardall
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Posted by Christian Y. Cardall to Mormons and Evolution at 12/02/2005 12:00:59 PM
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