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To: Boogieman
Therefore saying that you believe God created evolution is essentially saying that you believe God created a process described by a theory that does not admit the possibility that God created it.

The process is the process. Nothing in evolutionary theory speaks about who or what created the process, or if it needed to be created at all. The first life came from somewhere -- it could have formed through naturalistic mechanisms, it could have been zapped into existence ex-nihilo by a deity -- evolution doesn't try to tell us what happened.

47 posted on 09/25/2009 10:00:54 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

“The process is the process. Nothing in evolutionary theory speaks about who or what created the process”

It doesn’t need to be stated in evolutionary theory. Since evolutionary theory is by definition a theory of naturalistic science, it implicitly does not allow the possibility of any supernatural involvement.


50 posted on 09/25/2009 10:06:42 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Alter Kaker

“The first life came from somewhere — it could have formed through naturalistic mechanisms, it could have been zapped into existence ex-nihilo by a deity “

Should these possibilities be put forward as hypotheses in the classroom?


101 posted on 09/25/2009 3:35:47 PM PDT by Mudtiger
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To: Alter Kaker
Nothing in evolutionary theory speaks about who or what created the process, ... -- evolution doesn't try to tell us what happened.

Illogical...

Evolution requires change over a period of time. Time then, by deductive reasoning, must also have a beginning.

Evolution is entirely dependent on a succession of events over time.

150 posted on 09/26/2009 8:52:02 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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