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To: ksen

How do you conclude that? Do you really think that Moses would have understood, if he'd explained it the way Darwin did?

And besides, what is the theological reason for explaining it the way Darwin did? If he used the process that Darwin describes to create man, then wouldn't he just say "God created man?" (which is exactly what he did).

Why go into the unnecessary detail? Particularly if it might cause someone to say, "This can't be right. This is just not believable."

I just think that there is a danger in assuming that we have all the answers. The question of how God created man is just not important. All we need to know is that he did it.


71 posted on 08/04/2005 12:37:39 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
How do you conclude that? Do you really think that Moses would have understood, if he'd explained it the way Darwin did?

Moses wasn't an idiot. He had the best education that the world could give. He was raised in the house of one of the most powerful men on the planet at that time. So yes, I believe Moses would have understood perfectly well if God had described evolution to Him if that was what He had used to Create.

And besides, what is the theological reason for explaining it the way Darwin did? If he used the process that Darwin describes to create man, then wouldn't he just say "God created man?" (which is exactly what he did).

That question presupposes that God did use Darwin's method and assumes there is some theological point to Darwin's method. I don't think there is any theological point to evolution......well, except to resist God.

I just think that there is a danger in assuming that we have all the answers. The question of how God created man is just not important. All we need to know is that he did it.

The bigger danger is not being willing to say that we really do have an answer where God has clearly spelled something out. Too many times we refuse to say that we KNOW what God was saying because it sounds presumptous but God gave us the Bible so that, through the Holy Spirit, we could understand.

78 posted on 08/04/2005 12:53:59 PM PDT by ksen ("He that knows nothing will believe anything." - Thomas Fuller)
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