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To: tomzz
"...leftover from some early experiment..."

Are you saying god experimented? If god is omniscient/omnipotent then why would that be the case?
148 posted on 07/22/2006 9:22:53 AM PDT by stormer (Get your bachelors, masters, or doctorate now at home in your spare time!)
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To: stormer
Are you saying god experimented? If god is omniscient/omnipotent then why would that be the case?

Good question. Here's the best answer I can come up with. There is no way RNA/DNA could just sort of happen. As Walter Remine notes, RNA/DNA is the basis of all life on Earth and logically has to be the work of a single pair of hands.

Nonetheless, logically, there is no way to picture an omnipotent and well-meaning God creating biting flies, mosquitos, ticks, fleas, chiggers, disease vectors, and the myriad cratures of Pandora's Box. Our present living world is clearly the work of more than one set of hands, and some of those hands were evilly motivated. We should shortly acquire the power to eliminate the creatures of Pandora's box on this planet, and we should not waste five seconds in doing so when we do.

A single pair of hands created RNA/DNA but, after that happened, others got into it. The evidence we have is that the engineering and re-engineering of complex life forms used to be some sort of a cottage industry on our planet, that more than a single pair of hands was involved, and that somewhere in the recent past all such activity stopped for some reason we have not yet understood, and that nothing which could create new kinds of animals is going on any more.

166 posted on 07/22/2006 11:00:27 AM PDT by tomzz
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To: stormer

"God is omniscient/omnipresent....."

Your understanding of God is that he is a chess player, playing both sides of the board. That I can assure is not the case. You have studied your scriptures of evolution and think you know what it means. Take the time to study the Bible and you will find that God is not the chess player on both sides of the board. He is a risk taker; willing to let mankind have free will and leave evil unbridled.


194 posted on 07/22/2006 12:43:19 PM PDT by burroak
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