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To: Notary Sojac; BrandtMichaels

I’ll take a few days and get some links posted for you.
In the meantime, this brochure asks some pretty good questions and gives links to where you can find the Creationist explanation:

http://creation.com/images/pdfs/flyers/15-questions-for-evolutionists-s.pdf


148 posted on 05/28/2012 6:24:35 PM PDT by schaef21
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To: schaef21
Before addressing the "fifteen points" in this pamphlet, I'd like to make sure we are not constructing a straw man.

That straw man being the division of all opinion into (a) "The universe and all in it was created by God precisely according to the Book of Genesis sequence and literal timetable" versus (b) "The universe and all in it is the result of blind chance, beginning to end".

Now although there are a number of outspoken proponents of (b), it is by no means the only alternative to (a) as the pamphlet (particularly items 1, 6 and 11) appears to suggest.

Off the top of my head, I would suggest

(a) the universe was created by the Judeo-Christian God, exactly as according to Genesis.
(b) the universe was created by the Judeo-Christian God, but the Genesis account is in many ways allegorical.
(c) the universe was created by some other God or Gods, in a manner and for a purpose revealed to us other than in the Bible.
(d) the universe was created by a God whose purpose and method has not yet been made known to us (deism or pantheism)
(e) The universe was set in motion by a creative force but since then has operated strictly according to the natural laws established at that time.
(f) The universe is the result of blind chance, beginning to end.

My personal position is not that I am required to defend (f) as the only truth. Rather, my position is that (a) is contradicted by the evidence of the world we live in, but that (b) through (f) are all possible alternatives.

150 posted on 06/03/2012 6:54:21 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Ut veniant omnes)
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