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To: betty boop

Thanks for your kind words.

Indeed you are, as usual, greatly correct.

I believe, as Scripture indicates . . . by Holy Spirit's ongoing sustaining power . . . creation remains . . . structured vs disintegrated. I suspect it's at the subatomic level or beyond our comprehension--the level.


23 posted on 01/26/2007 10:31:35 AM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Quix; Alamo-Girl; .30Carbine; hosepipe
...creation remains . . . structured vs disintegrated.

Hi Quix! It is a very ancient insight, predating the Incarnation by some five centuries, that for there to be a universe, there needs to be two things (or rather, two underlying principles): that which stays ever the same, and that which is capable of changing. The insight is as old as Heracitus, the great Greek philosopher of permanence and flux. The insight is directly analogous to the first and second laws of thermodynamics: i.e., (1) the conservation of matter/energy, and (2) the law of (increasing) entropy.

What does not change in our universe is the Logos: the Alpha and Omega -- the beginning of all that there is; and its teleology, or end, purpose or goal. Other than that, everything changes; evolution under law can be accommodated. Which is why I do not accept that evolution is a "random" process. What is under law cannot be said to be developed randomly.

I'm not sure I've expressed this very well. If not, I'll hear from people I'm pretty sure!

Thanks so much for writing, Quix!

24 posted on 01/26/2007 10:46:29 AM PST by betty boop (Beautiful are the things we see...Much the most beautiful those we do not comprehend. -- N. Steensen)
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