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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Say what? You cannot answer the question so you try to put words in my mouth?

I DO think that intelligible order in nature speaks to the majesty of our Lord God. I just don’t buy into the notion of those that think that because we observe that mutations happen randomly (like a dice roll) that it somehow means PERVERSLY (because you seem to like the word) that God is not in control of random events.

So I ask you again...

Is gambling non-teleological or do you think God is in control of who wins and who loses?


311 posted on 12/05/2008 6:51:47 AM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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To: allmendream
You cannot answer the question so you try to put words in my mouth?

You were saying something about Catholic schools not teaching intelligent design, and when challenged on that, you opted for changing the topic to questions about gambling. So there's no real need to answer such questions.

I DO think that intelligible order in nature speaks to the majesty of our Lord God.

But you are careful to avoid saying that it points to the designing mind of God. And yet we are supposed to believe that gambling points to a designing mind.

Is gambling non-teleological or do you think God is in control of who wins and who loses?

You were saying something about Catholic schools. According to Aquinas chance events are not considered to be designed. That puts your evolutionary theology at odds--in toto caelo--with the thomistic theory of intelligent design. As if anyone really needed further proofs that evolutionism is incompatible with Catholic natural theology. But thanks for providing more anyway.

You're probably going to pretend to miss the point again and ask me a lot of dumb questions about gambling and theology. But if you don't like the Thomist take on it, you can write to the Vatican and urge them to chuck Aquinas and adopt atheism, deism, Calvinism, or whatever it is that your selling. You can even preface the letter with a little lecture about how 'nothing in science is ever proven' and then proceed to prove your points.

312 posted on 12/05/2008 7:20:04 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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