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To: csense
If your answer is, that he guides evolution, then you have just defeated your premise, since randomness becomes incoherent.

A postiton that I have encountered is that "randomness" is an accurate word to describe the arrangement as far as humans are able to comprehend, but it is not truly "random" to God's plan, which is beyond human comprehension. While I am an atheist, I cannot find fault with this particular position.
89 posted on 09/09/2006 10:29:47 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio
A postiton that I have encountered is that "randomness" is an accurate word to describe the arrangement as far as humans are able to comprehend, but it is not truly "random" to God's plan, which is beyond human comprehension.

I think you're equating philosophy and science here unnecessarily. I would agree that science is not able to comprehend the actions of God, but that is not to say that man, in his reasoning, can not [and understand that reasoning does not necessarily equate to the empirical]

To say, on the one hand, that a process is random, yet on the other hand, say that it is deterministic as directed by the incomprehensible actions of God...is rather sloppy logic, to put it bluntly.

93 posted on 09/09/2006 10:55:45 PM PDT by csense
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