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To: Soliton

evolution, OK; Evolution, mot so much. God does in fact work more through nature and the natural law He ordains than through “miracles”.
It’s quite a leap of faith to lay all to blind chance.


11 posted on 04/27/2008 3:42:47 AM PDT by steve8714 (Always do what's right, even if it hurts. This is the lesson of Job.)
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To: steve8714
It’s quite a leap of faith to lay all to blind chance.

Until someone has EVIDENCE for an alternative theory, natural selection is the best we have.

13 posted on 04/27/2008 3:47:30 AM PDT by Soliton (McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
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To: steve8714
It’s quite a leap of faith to lay all to blind chance.

They can't get past irreducible complexity, even Dawkins admits that when he speculates aliens "seeded" the earth with life.

The premise set forth in this thread that Evolution and God are mutually exclusive is simply wrong. God's creation is subject to physical laws which is why we get very odd things like the Grand Canyon and Carlbad Caverns. These laws apply to life also, and so we get odd things like hiccups. The premise of ID is that evolution, or at least Man's evolution has been guided by an intelligent being for a specific purpose.

Saying that hiccups indicate against ID is like saying that the arrangement, size, and composition of the planets indicates against ID, or black holes, or comets and asteroids. Even beyond that though, the story of Genesis is in part the story of how creation, i.e. man, by the Free Will God gave man, can go against God's will. From that it is not much of a stretch to believe that God allows His creation to go its own way, so to speak, including letting the physical laws control the universe without His intervention, except on very rare occassions which Christians know as miracles. One of these miracles would be Man.

22 posted on 04/27/2008 4:32:52 AM PDT by HerrBlucher (Asked on his deathbed why he was reading the bible, WC Fields replied "I'm looking for loopholes.")
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