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To: Havoc

It says that God formed man from the dust of the earth. It doesn't say how He did so. It doesn't say, for example, that He definitely didn't cause non-living matter on earth (dust) to develop into some primitive form of life and then cause this primitive life to evolve via the mechanism of mutation (possibly guided by God) and natural selection and ultimately form man. Would that still not be forming man from the dust of the earth? If you bake bread, did you not turn flour into bread? You did it using some intermediate steps, however.


395 posted on 12/01/2004 6:51:40 AM PST by stremba
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To: stremba
It says that God formed man from the dust of the earth. It doesn't say how He did so

Stop sign here. From the dust of the earth, comprehend - not from another living being; but from the dust of the earth. And it is later written that man was formed from the dust and would return to it - upon death and decay, that is precisely what happens.. the body disintegrates into base elements and falls back into the mineral composites that generally are dirt. The problem here is that man comes from dust and will return to it; but, in between times, neither he nor any other living thing can be referred to as dust.

As for your example of baking flour into bread, you have a major problem - primarily that the flour came from wheat grains. You had to plant a seed, grow a crop, harvest the wheat grains, sort them from chaff, process them into flour, then mix in other ingredients, bake and present bread. At the point you converted the wheat to flour, it stopped being wheat and became elements extracted from wheat. When you added other things and baked it, it became something far beyond just mere flour. And if you grind the bread back down to powder, it is not merely flour. Nor can you return it to the state of being a pile of wheat grains. At no time along the way is bread=wheat. At no point along the way is man=dirt.

Scripture says plainly that God formed man from the dust of the earth and that this was done after the animals had been created. It does not say God made man from the beasts of the earth, from another animal, etc. Language is specific enough to disern between dust and animals. Your story is a lie attempting to supplant itself in place of the truth.

484 posted on 12/01/2004 3:18:51 PM PST by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade.)
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