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To: CatherineofAragon

Creation doesn’t explain new species evolution doesn’t explain the moon maybe someday God will tell me otherwise until then I’ll believe in both


29 posted on 11/18/2012 11:17:29 AM PST by edzo4 (You call us the 'Party Of No', I call us the resistance.)
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To: edzo4
"Creation doesn’t explain new species evolution"

God decreed that all animals would reproduce after their own kind, and so they have. One kind cannot change into another; changes over time are a result of variations within their God-created kind, which stays the same. This is not evolution.

Interestingly, and as an aside, evolution cannot be a fact because it contradicts the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Simply put, it says that everything falls apart and disintegrates over time....left to themselves, chemical compounds break down; they do not become more complex. This natural law would have to be completely disregarded and/or disproven for one to believe in evolution.

"doesn’t explain the moon"

Not sure what you mean by that?

" maybe someday God will tell me otherwise until then I’ll believe in both"

He already has; it's right there in Scripture for you. To believe in evolution means that Jesus lied when He said man and woman were created in the beginning, and we know He doesn't lie.

33 posted on 11/18/2012 1:17:50 PM PST by CatherineofAragon (The idiocracy has come home to roost. God help us.)
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To: edzo4

I think “both” is a possible position. (We have to still be careful what we mean by evolution since the field has a wide range of theorists and some go far afield in their conclusions.)

It could be both in that evolution is the God implemented creation. As, I believe, Galileo said mathematics is the language of God (in nature) regarding his astronomy; mutation may be the language of God in species.

No one suggests pure chaos in natural science and there are close to an infinity of possible survivable niches, so positing a direction is not ruled out by the science of evolution. So far as we observe, the universe “evolves” self-conscious beings.

It could therefore, and also, be both in the manner of world views. The facts on the ground (so to speak) would be the same whether the large is the accretion of the small or whether the small is the result of the large. The first being the non-Creationist view, the latter being the Creationist view.


40 posted on 11/19/2012 1:36:22 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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