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To: Oceander
The Bible tells us why God created the Universe, but is less detail-oriented and more allegorical when it comes to the how.

OK let's examine that premise, which proceeds out of the mouths of theistic evolutionists on a regular basis.

Go read Genesis chapters 1 and 2. How many words in them deal with how the world was created, and how many deal with why it was created? In my NIV I count 30 verses of how and one verse of why (if we count verse 26 as "why," which is debatable) in chapter 1, and 2 to 3 verses of why and at least 22 of how in chapter 2. Now, certainly those two chapters are not the entire Bible, but they are typical in that God does not restrict His word to the "why" and in almost every case when "why" is dicussed the "how" is "God created them for this reason."

In other words, if God had simply pre-formed every jot and tittle of the human form in one go, right down to the last molecule, in final finished form, then the result would have been an automaton, a derivative robot with no genuine spark of self, of free will.

So, you believe God has the capability to create a human being "in one go, right down to the last molecule, in final finished form" but NOT the capability to create that same form with molecules arranged so that they would have free will?

Could you provide me with some Biblical backup for the idea that free will came from natural selection after humans diverged from a common ancestor with the apes? Scientific backup would be fine as well. What is the exact mechanism that caused natural selection to induce free will in certain arrangements of molecules?

You call God "Lord" in your post. Are you a Christian?

227 posted on 09/02/2011 7:34:07 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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231 posted on 09/02/2011 8:55:23 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Mr. Silverback

I get my hackles up at attempts to “allegorize” large passages of the bible away.

A more conservative approach, involving comparing scripture with scripture and using historical and grammatical interpretation, keeps open the possibility if not the probability of the day-age theory, in which the creation days stand for ages or eras. But what God was doing behind the scene of the Genesis account is by definition not shown. We don’t have the knowledge to make presumptions about it. It was a time of the miraculous by any fair measure. “Punctuated equilibrium,” if geological and biological accounts actually show that, begins to look a lot like “this was planned so that production of species would neither generate a visible contingent of defective creatures nor stagnate.” Some say chance, I say wisdom.


233 posted on 09/02/2011 4:18:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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