As a believer in Intelligent Design I believe that God's plan, from the beginning, was to create man and woman. I do not have a problem with God's patience or process He used. Jesus also spoke to those not yet born, is there any difference?
Creation by death (which is what evolution really would entail) is incapatible with the character of God. How do you explain that.
I rationalize that as being no different than believing that my parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great-great-grandparents, etc. had to live and die so that I could be born.
Hey NL - You said this previously:
“I am a proponent of Thomistic Philosophy as it relates to Natural Law. As such all is predicated on existence of God. It affirms the compatibility of Science and Scripture as both being authored by God.
If your philosophy “affirms the compatibility of Science and Scripture as both being authored by God” you have to account for what the Son of God said in Mark 10:6.
If Scripture is authored by God and He is by definition omniscient and the author of truth....then how do you explain what Christ said in this passage?
Your own philosophy would have to consider it a refutation of the theory of evolution.
“Jesus also spoke to those not yet born, is there any difference?”
Not sure what point you are making here.....help me out.
“I rationalize that (Evolution’s use of death as a tool to create) as being no different than believing that my parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great-great-grandparents, etc. had to live and die so that I could be born.”
They didn’t have to die for you to be born, they had to live. As well, they didn’t have to die to “create” a new species.
I stand by my argument that it is not God’s character to destroy innocent life in order to create.
Food for thought.....
Information Theorists have, for all intents and purposes, destroyed the supposed mechanism of evolution. Evolutionists say that Natural Selection acting upon Random Mutations account for all of the species we see today.
Observable science has shown that mutations actually result in less genetic information, not more. (sometimes they are information neutral but NEVER has there been an observed mutation that results in an increase in information.)
Natural Selection, by definition, chooses from information that already exists. By observation then, a mutation will result in less information for the Natural Selection process to choose from.
To extend that logically.....all of the information for every living thing on the earth would have had to have been in that first cell that Science tells us magically formed itself out of a primordial mud puddle that they can’t possibly know even existed.
Blessing NL - Looking forward to your reply.