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To: Boogieman
It really isn’t a difficult concept.

One either has faith that God is in control of random events (as the Bible says He does), or one doesn’t.

That is completely different than accepting the physical mechanisms that cause mutations and how they contribute to evolution.

The physical mechanism is the same - if you think God is in control or you reject that view.

My faith is not the same as the scientific theory; but as creationists cannot seem to seperate the two distinct and absolutely seperate concepts; no wonder you are having so much difficulty.

100 posted on 02/08/2013 5:14:17 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream

“The physical mechanism is the same - if you think God is in control or you reject that view.”

Well, the physical mechanism may be the same, but you are positing an entirely different explanation of those mechanisms compared to the ones proposed and observed by science. As I explained in the previous post, you are transforming the random causes into deterministic ones with your rhetorical/logical acrobatics. If they operate so as to achieve a predetermined outcome, then they are not truly random, because they no longer fit the definition.

“My faith is not the same as the scientific theory; but as creationists cannot seem to seperate the two distinct and absolutely seperate concepts; no wonder you are having so much difficulty.”

The conflict is not between your faith and the scientific theory, despite you attempting to make it so. The conflict is between the theory that you espouse, which is compatible with your faith, and the traditional Theory of Evolution, which is slightly different, for the reasons that I’ve already pointed out.


101 posted on 02/08/2013 6:27:35 PM PST by Boogieman
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