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To: ALS
How did evolution make the jump from no life to life?

I'm not sure it did. Evolution explains how life developed from the first self-replicating creatures to the diverse species that inhabit the earth today. Those first creatures did not arise from evolution as I understand the term (descent from a common ancestor, with speciation occuring through modifications acted upon by natural selection).

My faith tells me that God created all life. Science illuminates how He used natural processes to create humanity from primitive forbears. As to the very first living things, science, for now, has little evidence to tell us how God created them -- perhaps He did it in a supernatural way, perhaps in a natural way that has yet to be discovered. Neither possibility would bother my faith; God created the laws of nature, so saying that something happened in a natural way is not to contradict that God did it.

619 posted on 05/15/2003 5:28:24 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian
God created the laws of nature, so saying that something happened in a natural way is not to contradict that God did it.

Not bothering to look it up just now, but in the book of Amos God is said to "create" the wind. (The word is the same as used in Genesis, which biblical apologists sometimes -- falsely -- claim only refers to creation "out of nothing.") The bible also informs us that God creates each generation of Israel, praise on the lips, and that he is involved intimately, personally and actively in the embryological development of individual human beings, "forming inward parts," "knitting together bones and sinew," and the like.

In short there are many instances were the Bible uses creationistic language to describe what even the most literalistic modern fundamentalist understands to be perfectly "natural" phenomena.

629 posted on 05/15/2003 5:39:25 PM PDT by Stultis
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