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To: Buck W.
You’re asserting that God isn’t smart enough to use evolution to get to his desired end state.

You said that evolution is consistent with Christianity, and I'm giving you an example where it is not. I do understand your desire to quickly change the subject, though. Nevertheless, whatever you or I say will not change the fact that it is, to use Catholics for example, de fide that the intellect and moral faculty, which are part of the soul, comes immanently from God.

336 posted on 12/17/2008 5:47:10 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

I didn’t change the subject. However, as a literal fundamentalist, you don’t want to hear any refutation of your argument. Besides, what’s wrong with arguing (not necessarily concluding) that man’s moral faculties came from apes*? Are apes not also God’s creation? Don’t today’s apes demonstrate very “human” qualities? At some point in a very long process, God inserted the soul.

*Oh, and the theory doesn’t state that man came from apes, a convenient ploy that literalists use to scare the uninformed. Man and ape, however, had a common ancestor.


337 posted on 12/17/2008 5:54:05 AM PST by Buck W. (BHO: Selling hope, keeping the change.)
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