Hello

[Purple Rabbit]

Hello DeistPaladin,

Welcome to AF. Please don't feel offended by the following I have to say on our first encounter. It is the position of deism and your arguments thereof that I attack, not you as a person.

I think the argument being made in the video is totally unconvincing. Evolution has equipped men and women with biological needs and traits such as an innate urge for caretaking and raising of children that, fairly common other factors being in place, assure the perpetuation of the genome. Also there are a lot of human features that nature has equipped us with that have no straight translation to proliferation of genetic material. Also evolution theory predicts that as a spinoff of unprecise natural selection traits will develop that have no direct purpose for survival but on the other hand are not detrimental to it.

Also it seems in this video as if evolution is regarded as the whole of nature. There are a lot of things we don't understand about nature. To posit a deity to fill the gaps is a bogus solution. The more we find about nature the more it becomes clear that there is no thread of evidence in nature that a deity is needed for it. When you reach the conclusion, as you do, that your "solution" is unverifiable and has many alternatives, the only reasonable thing to do is to refrain from speculation. Deism may be your personal conviction but since you share it here as a reasoned position I more or less feel an obligation to point out that you have not a single argument to go on and that it is nothing but mere biased speculation.