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To: Lurking Libertarian
Yeah, except that evolution contradicts His word. He "formed Man from His own image", and gave man special authority and dominion over the rest of creation. So Evolution contradicts the basic "special" and "Godlike" attributes of man - -a soul, a conscience, a spirit and a capacity for prayer, moral choice, and -- in a post Pentecost world -- the capacity to "do the miracles Jesus Himself did". Animals don't have this capacity and unless there is some evolution of the spirit that the Bible has complete ignored, Evolution contradicts the Bible. The Bible does say that we are not mere animals or "brute beasts" enslaved to our appetites and instincts. And since God doesn't contradict Himself as He is the Word Made Flesh. (And He said "My words will never pass away, though heaven and earth shall pass away!)

As for gravity, still an unexplained and inexplicable phenomena for even Einstein, God says that He "holds the heavens in place".

Can't argue with that. But I would like to see some Christian scientist work out a formula for it -- past what Einstein said that "the more he studies the universe, the more he is convinced there is a God".
1,507 posted on 02/15/2006 2:12:46 PM PST by Californiajones ("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy" - Thomas Aquinas)
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To: Californiajones; Lurking Libertarian
Animals don't have this capacity and unless there is some evolution of the spirit that the Bible has complete ignored, Evolution contradicts the Bible. The Bible does say that we are not mere animals or "brute beasts" enslaved to our appetites and instincts.

"I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. "

-- Ecclesiastes 3:18-19


1,516 posted on 02/15/2006 2:27:14 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Californiajones
Yeah, except that evolution contradicts His word. He "formed Man from His own image",

Something I talked about here and here.

1,517 posted on 02/15/2006 2:28:28 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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