Can you rule out that I guided evolution? Are you agnostic towards that question as well?
Like I said, no, I can't rule out that you guided it or a 3 headed unicorn guided it or that the higher power is dumb or a genocidal bastard. All those things could be true. All I'm saying is that there can be a possibility of a higher power
existing, I don't claim to know who or what it is.
Correct but then again, there are many more signs that point to the existence of a higher power than there are for Elvis being divine
Like what?
Just that we rely a lot on chance in everything about evolution and many other theories. We call it randomness/chance. But the chances of complex systems like the human brain or the eye, the plants, the galaxies, stars, sun, etc happening through random chance are a bit too low and hard for me to believe on face value unless its all conclusively, 100% proven by science and accepted by all scientists.
Think about how many mutations have to happen correctly to form even the simplest of organs. I don't think that that kind of stuff can happen through sheer chance. There has to be either a pattern/explanation to it, such as the mutations being an adaption to the environment rather than being random, or some sort of higher power guiding it.
Plus also consider things like dinosaurs being wiped out by an asterioid without which mammals couldn't have evolved the way they did and humans may not have been able to survive and dominate the planet.
When you put together all those things such as:
1) Creation of the universe
2) Creation of earth with the environment necessary for life to function
3) The way life evolved, all the mutations which had to happen for the complex organs to have formed
4) The wiping out of dinosaurs as a result of which mammals survived and dominated the planet
5) The tremendous variety of life, the colors of a peacock's tail, the elegance of the way in which life spreads, sexual reproduction, etc, and the human female body itself
6) And many other things I'm missing
I don't know about you, but when I think about all those things and all the events/mutations which needed to have happened for those things to occur, I'm inclined to keep my mind open to at least the possibility of there being a higher power which played a part in guiding some of the things that have happened.
And I do remain an agnostic, I don't believe in such a higher power, but I'm open to the possibility that it may exist.
Does it have any properties? And how do you know it has these properties?
I do not know is the correct answer to both of those questions.
Topic: Some questions about evolution