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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

I asked you if you considered it, a question you still have not answered. Do you think that if something is “random” that means it is not directed by God? How do you reconcile that view with Prov 16:33?

The flagellum manifests how protein structures can be coded for by DNA that is subject to mutation leading to variation, and that this variation can lead to a structure that was used to secrete toxins into other cells, into becoming a motility structure. This manifests the grandeur of God’s creation to me, because I am a Christian, so I consider the flagella and everything else to be a manifestation of the will of God.


335 posted on 12/06/2008 6:51:43 AM PST by allmendream (Wealth is EARNED not distributed.... so how could it be Redistributed?)
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To: allmendream
This manifests the grandeur of God’s creation to me, because I am a Christian, so I consider the flagella and everything else to be a manifestation of the will of God.

How about sin?

336 posted on 12/07/2008 3:46:16 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: allmendream
Do you think that if something is “random” that means it is not directed by God?

"Omne agens agit propter finem. Every agent acts in view of an end." (Maritain)

we ascribe to chance those things which are beside the intention of the agent. (Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, 2.39)

Holy Writ bears witness to this truth... God divided the light from the darkness... so that not only the creation of things, but also their distinction is shown to be from God, and not from chance..." (Aquinas SCG 2.39)

"Whatever happens, happens in view of an end" is erroneous. "That which happens by chance is precisely what happens with no end to determine it." (Maritain)

So, to say as you do, that chance is design or to argue (as you do) that because God's designs are not random, therefore random events are God's design, is just a pile of contradictions and illogic.
337 posted on 12/07/2008 4:12:25 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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