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To: Lurking Libertarian
There is nothing inherent in the theory of common descent which requires this belief.

Playing semantic games. Evolution says much more than 'common descent'. It is totally materialistic and completely rules out divine intervention in the creation of species. For example it completely contradicts the Bible in saying that man is descended from apes by materialistic means. Because evolution totally rules out any kind of process which is not random and materialistic it is totally unChristian (in fact I would call it anti-Christian). The only way that evolution of species could be deemed to be Christian is if it was postulated that new species came about as a result of a divine design from the beginning of life. Evolution clearly opposes any such explanation and is therefore materialistic and unChristian. If some wish to delude themselves that they can reconcile the two, they are only fooling themselves, but they are not disproving the enmity to Christianity inherent in Darwinian evolution.

348 posted on 06/14/2003 7:10:41 AM PDT by gore3000 (Intelligent people do not believe in evolution.)
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Placemarker.
349 posted on 06/14/2003 8:48:58 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: gore3000
that man is descended from apes by materialistic means

Clueless about evolution placemarker for me...
353 posted on 06/14/2003 9:12:09 AM PDT by Aric2000 (If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
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