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To: Thatcherite; thomaswest
Last but not least... What has your personal opinion about dignity and self-respect got to do with whether the theory of evolution is true or not?

I guess it doesn't. The response was to TW's statement:"I am amused by Bible and Qu'ran anti-evolution faith believers who loudly proclaim, "I am not descended from an ape". Then they accept, proudly, that they were created out of dust or dirt. It seems a queer stance.

He seemed puzzled why we would be willing to accept the concept that we are made from dirt and not willing to accept the concept of descending from apes. (His words, not mine; so I don't get flamed. I agree that we didn't descend from apes.) So the source of *pride* then is whose image we are made in, not what we are made from.

213 posted on 02/15/2006 5:19:20 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

What if God made us in his image, using evolution as the process? What kind of "image" do you have in mind when you think of God. A fierce, kindly old bearded gentleman sitting in the clouds. Many of the "in his image" arguers seem to be arguing from that kind of viewpoint. Presumably you are thinking of something a little less material and a little more elevated. Would it be outside God's power to grant a soul to a creature that, through the evolution of its ancestors, had attained the mental capacity to have one? Why would such a creature, with its God-given soul, not be in God's image?


214 posted on 02/15/2006 6:00:28 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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