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To: Californiajones
Origin means how something originates.

Yes. In the case of Darwin's theory, it's on how "species" originate.

Meaning how something comes to be.

Yes, how "species" came to be, as opposed to a single uniform type of life on Earth.

Meaning how it all started.

No, not how it "all" started, just species.

Meaning Evolution bumps up against God as Prime Mover, God as Creator or even God as Personal Intercessor.

Wrong. You've focused on a single word in the title and totally ignored every other word. This is fundamentally dishonest. Yes, Darwin's theory discusses an "origin", but it's not the "origin" of everything, it's just the origin of species.

Meaning Evolution makes an inherent claim against a Designer of the Universe by asserting that man evolved from conscienceless single cell life forms.

Please explain how stating that humans descended from single-celled life forms makes a claim against a "Designer of the Universe". The universe existed long before single-celled life forms. How does making a statement about single-celled life forms equate to claiming that the universe itself has no "Designer"? Be specific.

This is a "claim" or "argument" against there being a good Creator God who designed the universe -- of which Man with a conscience and soul is the centerpiece.

Non-sequitur. You are reading things into the theory of evolution that are simply not there.

It is the inherent assertion of the Origin of the Species that God does not exist

No it is not. The second printing of Origin of the Species specifically mentioned a Creator as the possible source for the first life forms. You are lying.
743 posted on 02/14/2006 11:34:24 AM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio
The origin of the species, as in Mankind, is what the Bible is all about.

So again, I'll repeat myself.

The INHERENT (please look up that word, Evos) argument of Darwin's hypothesis is that the species evolved from lower life forms.

As this negates the idea of the Soul, of the conscience, of the moral comport of Mankind as well as dishes entirely the Biblical descriptions of how and why Man was created, Darwin's hypothesis of Evolution in the early 19th century negates the Biblical model.

Don't know how to say it any clearer except if it didn't nail the Bible, this thread would not be this long. Our spiritual nature is something that did not "evolve" out of physical processes. Sorry.
898 posted on 02/14/2006 2:31:40 PM PST by Californiajones ("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy" - Thomas Aquinas)
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