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To: Amos the Prophet

you guys are making what philosophers call a "category mistake".
here is no contradictin between the existence of God and the rules of evolution.
evolutionary theory describes things in nature. God is above nature; he created nature. the relationship between God and the laws of evolution is analogous to that between an author and a book.
(i.e., evolution is the result of "really" intelligent design.)


105 posted on 09/30/2005 3:27:25 PM PDT by drhogan
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To: drhogan
(i.e., evolution is the result of "really" intelligent design.)

That's entirely possible. The funny thing (well, one of the many funny things) about ID is that it doesn't seem to have much respect for God^H^H^H "the creator". It assumes that he can't create a self-sustaining system, and instead has to constantly meddle with it to get the right results. Personally, I'd be much more impressed with a creator that tweaked the parameters of the Big Bang just right so that life would arise naturally billions of years later.

120 posted on 09/30/2005 3:35:37 PM PDT by ThinkDifferent (That's great. What?)
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To: drhogan
the relationship between God and the laws of evolution is analogous to that between an author and a book

Except that the book has not been finished. God is still writing it.

The notion that God can not be considered in scientific circles because he started all this and left town is not what any Theist would agree to.

The universe is not a watch, wound up and running down. There is a profound and continuing creativity going on that can not be reduced to either pure chance or pure mechanics.

178 posted on 09/30/2005 4:09:34 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (THIS IS WAR AND I MEAN TO WIN IT.)
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