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To: pacelvi
If death entered the world via Adam, as God said it did, then the fossils cannot be from lifeforms that died earlier.

Step back from your argument for just a minute and rethink it. Since God who created the Universe can do with it as He chooses, then there is nothing in the theory of evolution that prevents Him from allowing the creatures of this planet to evolve to the point at which He decided it was time to create man, imbue him with an immortal soul and place him over all the creatures that roam the earth. This fits biblically since God asked Adam to name the creatures. To do so presupposes that they already had been created, right?

6 posted on 07/28/2007 4:32:55 PM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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To: NYer

Sure, God can do anything. But that doesn’t address what I said... if death entered the world at the time of Adam’s sin, then it neccessarily means that nothing was dying before hand. Thus no evolution. Evolution states genetic mutations were the mechanism, so therefore, for evolution to be true and also that there was no death before Adam, then where are all the half-wing/half-arm type creatures , etc...

of course no one REALLY knows the process by which life manifested itself on the planet, so i certainly believe that reasonable people can differ on this and respect one another’s opinion.


7 posted on 07/28/2007 6:31:09 PM PDT by pacelvi (Islam is the acid that will dissolve the nation-state and led to the total breakdown of civilization)
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To: NYer

And millions of Christians around the world would go one step further and regard the story of Adam and Eve as an allegorical tale handed down to illustrate and inform on the nature of the relationship between Man and God.


8 posted on 07/28/2007 6:36:04 PM PDT by tyke
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