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To: sickoflibs; steve-b

So many of the “malfunctions” of Creation so to speak, that anti-Designers speak of are things GOD allows to exist to remind us of our fallen state, make us aware of the earth’s futility, and our own sinfulness. By realizing things are “not as they should be” including us, God is hoping to direct us to our Savior, Christ. By rising from the dead, Christ proved His sovereignty over the powerful forces of decay and sin at work in our world and at work in our bodies.

I think of animals like black, plague-carrying rats. They sort of act as part a trailer of hell. And beautiful, colorful creatures that happen to be venomous? They remind me of the deceptive nature of sin: Beautiful on the outside, poison on the inside. Like the fruit Adam and Eve ate. Once Adam sinned, death and decay entered the world.

I think today, one of the clearest evidences of the truth of God is sexually transmitted diseases. If humans were truly meant to just “mate around,” why does HIV and HPV exist?

It’s incredible how proof of God and His work through Christ is truly in the details of all that’s around us. :) As Paul reminds us in Romans 1!

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”


15 posted on 12/15/2009 1:21:33 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ("When I survey the wondrous cross...")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege; steve-b
RE :” I think today, one of the clearest evidences of the truth of God is sexually transmitted diseases. If humans were truly meant to just “mate around,” why does HIV and HPV exist?

Now you did it. Homos just want love LOL. Why do you hate?

Seriously though, you are setting up a strawman with the rule ‘evolution’=’mating around’, and then proving it invalid. Evolutionists theorize that monogamy is a gene survival strategy, as well as a human cultural strategy, because humans have such long development times compared to other animals.

I am not selling this idea to you (not taking a side here) , just saying setting up strawmen and knocking them down, a favorite for creationists, is not a rational argument.

17 posted on 12/15/2009 1:32:04 PM PST by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the government spending you demand stupid")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
LOL -- good design is proof of "Intelligent Design" AND bad design is proof of "Intelligent Design".

You remind me of the lawyer hired to defend someone against a lawsuit for damaging a borrowed car: "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, first I will prove that my client never touched this car; then I will prove that this car was already damaged when my client took possession; and finally I will prove that this car was in perfect condition when my client returned it!"

21 posted on 12/15/2009 1:49:24 PM PST by steve-b (Intelligent Design -- "A Wizard Did It")
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