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To: PatrickHenry

If the world evolved then it was set in motion by God and he planned it that way.

Problem solved.


30 posted on 12/18/2004 8:02:54 PM PST by DestroytheDemocrats (My screen name has come true!!!! W whipped the Dems ! Yaaaaaay!!!)
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To: DestroytheDemocrats
If the world evolved then it was set in motion by God and he planned it that way.

It ain't that simple. Scripture says plainly that God made man from the dust of the earth in a seperate event after creating the animals. That's wrench number one. Wrench number two is that there was no such thing as death till Adam sinned. This also ocurred long after all the creating was done - which is in contention directly with evolution. Wrench number three is that the language of Genesis doesn't allow it. The literal language is THE FIRST DAY, THE SECOND DAY, etc. Definitive article associated with day. There's only one first day. And there is no precident for translating the original hebrew to anything but "day". Nothing else stands up. It only gets worse.

If you try to force ages onto this, you're violating exigesis rules and you destroy context among other things. God made plants one day, Light the following day, and insects to polinate the plants on the next. That's called dealing rapidly with built in interdependancies which exist for the benefit of all involved. At each point of the story, evolution directly contradicts scripture and posits something destructive to the situation. Thus, you can't say God just set something in motion and let it do it's own thing here. We have the story telling as much as we need to know about what happened. The problem here is people playing at religion wanting not to have the image that science and religion are in argument with one another. They aren't in any way. Christianity and evolution are in direct contention with one another and evolution isn't science. It's just propped up by scientists with an agenda. They start from their conclusions and suppress/dismiss anything that blows holes in their pet conclusion. That ain't science.

224 posted on 12/20/2004 2:59:40 AM PST by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade.)
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