To: gore3000
"Yes there is a connection between Darwinian evolution and Christian belief - Darwinism denies a Creator. It has to in fact. To believe in the numerous improbabilities which Darwinian evolution asks its believers to swallow, one must totally reject that God could have created life, that God could have created man."
Not at all the case. What may appear to be a series of merely fortutious "accidents", may indeed be the result of Devine Intervention, regardless of what some evolutionists may theorize. Even if there was no DIRECT Devine intervention, I, as a believeer in God and the Bible, would state that the fundamental laws and premises which control the actions of the evolutionary process were Devinely established, thus refuting any such claims. There is no reason the laws of physics and chemistry and cosmology need have turned out the way they did.
Perosnally, if evolutionary products were merely the reult of a series of 'accidents", it would be possible that a creature like Homo sapiens might never have evolved. The fact that he did, is a good argument for the existence of a Deity. As someone once suggested, the odds that several thousand monkeys typing away on typewriters could produce the works of Shakespear are exceedingly remote.
171 posted on
09/09/2003 7:48:04 AM PDT by
ZULU
To: ZULU
Not at all the case. What may appear to be a series of merely fortutious "accidents", may indeed be the result of Devine Intervention, regardless of what some evolutionists may theorize.We are speaking of Darwinian evolution, not evolution in general. A Christian evolution would be one where God created life and set it on a specified path to unfold eventually into man. But this would be a designed life. Design from the beginning, but nevertheless designed. Darwinism denies divine design in all shape and form and posits instead its own 'creator', the non-heavenly 'natural selection' which supposedly creates by killing.
183 posted on
09/09/2003 7:30:48 PM PDT by
gore3000
(Knowledge is the antidote to evolution.)
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