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To: Buck W.
You still seem to be struggling with this. Allow me to help:

Main Entry: 1chance
1 a: something that happens unpredictably without discernible human intention or observable cause b: the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings : luck c: the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence : contingency
2: a situation favoring some purpose : opportunity (needed a chance to relax)
3: a fielding opportunity in baseball
4 a: the possibility of a particular outcome in an uncertain situation ; also : the degree of likelihood of such an outcome (a small chance of success) b plural : the more likely indications (chances are he's already gone)
5 a: risk (not taking any chances) b: a raffle ticket

Notice how there is nothing indicating direction or planning?

78 posted on 02/23/2009 11:22:44 AM PST by rjsimmon (1-20-13)
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To: rjsimmon
a situation favoring some purpose

If I have this straight, you are saying that evolution has a purpose?

81 posted on 02/23/2009 11:25:23 AM PST by ColdWater
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To: rjsimmon

Thank you for the dictionary definition—I never would have thought of that!

However, the dictionary presents man’s definition of chance, not God’s definition. To God, there is no chance. Given that, even the random, chance occurrences that are part of evolutionary theory are all part of God’s plan.


84 posted on 02/23/2009 11:28:29 AM PST by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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