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To: ixtl
It rather sounds like you are invoking the old "given enough time, life will appear" canard. The problem is that, without any sort of "primordial soup" and in the harshest imaginable conditions, just after the earth's late heavy bombardment, we find evidence of life within ten million years. That is far too short a period for life to evolve.

The inevitable result, that God put life here, leads also to your result: that God also created life that can withstand and even thrive in extreme conditions. That doesn't boggle my mind, it satisfies it, and it directs it to its wise and benevolent Creator.

25 posted on 12/21/2011 2:53:18 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

With all due respect, that is not what I was saying. What I was saying is that we limit our thinking - life must be carbon based, needs water and oxygen, etc. Your own quote: “(T)hat God also created life that can withstand and even thrive in harsh conditions.” When we set the paramets for life, we seek to limit God. Who is to say that on some other world, in some other galaxy, God has created electromagnetic life? (just an example).

Have a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year.


26 posted on 12/21/2011 3:46:27 PM PST by ixtl ( You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
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