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To: Arthur McGowan

BTW: Parents don't create their children.

They don't??? Then, ah, how does it happen?

466 posted on 02/17/2003 3:58:07 PM PST by jennyp (http://crevo.bestmessageboard.com)
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To: jennyp
They procreate. That's not at all the same thing creation.

That's why you need to study philosophical issues and terminology. As it is, you are simply taking random potshots from a position of ignorance.

468 posted on 02/17/2003 4:04:57 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: jennyp; Arthur McGowan
create

\Cre*ate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Created; p. pr. & vb. n. Creating.]

1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. --Gen. i. 1.

2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
469 posted on 02/17/2003 4:06:11 PM PST by unspun (Christ-informed, American constitutional republic = Yes. Libertarian & objectivist revisionism = No.)
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