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To: Joe Brower
One irony to all of this is that, when and if mankind does finally find God, it will be science, not religion, that will find him.

You can say that again. It's too bad that many of either the religous or scientific persuation are so dogmatic that they are blind to the similarities of the philosophies.

I get a kick out of the "Creationists" vs. the "Evolutionists". What a phony issue -- there is nothing precluding a God from setting up an evolutionary mechanism to accomplish his creations (except perhaps a belief in the infallibility of men in writing, translating, editing, and interpreting a bible). In fact it would to be testiment to a greater (and comprehensible) God to fashion this mechanism. And it is clear induction that evolution is a real process that shapes phylogeny.

Ultimately, it may be that God is nothing at all -- the singularity that brought forth the whole universe! The all.

296 posted on 03/04/2002 8:40:18 PM PST by GregoryFul
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To: GregoryFul
-- there is nothing precluding a God from setting up an evolutionary mechanism to accomplish his creations... In fact it would to be testiment to a greater (and comprehensible) God to fashion this mechanism.

This has long been my postulate as well. The way I put it is "If you were an engineer so skilled that you could create a machine that, once switched on, would regulate, improve and repair itself automatically from then on, would you not do so? I would!".

335 posted on 03/05/2002 3:31:27 AM PST by Joe Brower
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To: GregoryFul
To your #296

It's heartening to see your saplings of more supple thought among the tall oaks of more hardened thinking, such as Southack and others display on this thread.

If God had not created evolution as the main guide and modifier for all life, everything He Created would have long become extinct, due to the constant geological upheaval and changing climatic conditions present on this world of His.

Over millennia, static, unchangeable forms of life would have rendered this planet as barren as it's own moon!

343 posted on 03/05/2002 8:34:23 AM PST by spoiler2
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