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To: Marius3188
Sounds like an interesting guy.

Among Collins’s most controversial beliefs is that of “theistic evolution”, which claims natural selection is the tool that God chose to create man. In his version of the theory, he argues that man will not evolve further.

Interesting, because in many ways intelligence (as possessed by humans) seems to nullify the effects of evolution. That is, we can "insulate" ourselves from the evolutionary tendency to adjust to environmental changes through the use of our intelligence. I wonder then if one could use that as some kind of rational argument for the notion that evolution (by in large) will stop with current humans, and thus humans as they exist were predestined by God?
63 posted on 06/11/2006 11:21:29 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: TheWasteLand

Nothing (in the natural world) stays the same.


259 posted on 06/12/2006 2:20:40 PM PDT by stands2reason (You cannot bully or insult conservatives into supporting your guy.)
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