Richard Dawkin's big blunder

[Fidel_Castronaut]

If evolution was guided, I could only draw the conclusion that the designer was incompetent to the extreme if it had to wipe out its project many times before it got to the current lot of organisms.

Because something is guided doesn't necessarily mean their was a conscious designer.

But lets for a moment assume that natural evolution was designed by God. Why would God allow periodic mass extinctions? To me its obvious...mass extinctions are filters which must be passed. An evolutionary system designed to produce human like intelligent is going to select against non human like intelligence. Its going to kill off non human like intelligences that emerges and becomes dominate(assuming human like intellect is the desire goal or a desired milestone of the evolutionary system).

Also, I'm not convinced that human beings are the end goal of some conscious deity. There are only a finite number of different organism DNA can code for and therefore a there is a finite limit on DNA based biological intellect. Our role may be that of just a precursor element whose purpose is to facilitate the next stage in the emergence of consciousness and intellect.

Humanity isn't the dominant force on our planet today, though. Not by a long shot.

I'm sorry but I can't play the 'let's say god did x' as I don't have any understanding of what a god is.

Do you have citations for your limit on DNA intelligence?

I'm also struggling to find anything of substance in your posts that Occam's razor doesn't eliminate.

Oh 100% agree. Sorry, just posting just in case

Yes, indeed, 'why'? It's probably the largest question for someone proposing anything god related to get over.

"His mind is unknowable" (Contradiction) or "works in mysterious ways" tends to be the response.

Subject of another thread. Lets keep this one focused on whether or not evolution is a blind process.

You brought it up, not me.