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To: Religion Moderator

I don't read minds - I read posts.
I am able to draw conclusions from such data.
however... your forum, your rules. I wish you joy in them. adieu.


451 posted on 09/19/2006 8:36:10 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: King Prout
I don't read minds - I read posts.

The content of most posts indicates the underlying mind as disengaged.

472 posted on 09/19/2006 9:21:02 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: King Prout
Christians believe in an omniscient and omnipotent God. What difference does it make when God created the universe--10,000 years ago or 10,000,000,000 years ago?

I've heard an intepretation of Genesis 1 that in verses 1 and 2 where it states, "1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters," that there could be an interval of billions of years between verses 1 and 2. That's possible, I suppose.

The basic conflict between the premise of evolution verses the Biblical account is that Gen. reports that two human individuals were specifically created by God "in His likeness" (in their spirits resided the Spirit of God), and that the Bible's account presents Adam and Eve as historical figures. They are part of the geneologies found elsewhere in scripture. Also, if we're to accept the rise of man through evolution, we are required to consider the first 10 or so chapters of Genesis as myth. The problem is, when in the biblical narrative does "myth" end and real history commense? At the story of Abraham? The Bible account doesn't differentiate between characters such as Adam, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham. The narrative is a seamless flow that leads from the earlier people in Genesis into those who are acknowledged as historical figures.

Evolution may have occurred (although what evidence there is isn't conclusive), but the Biblical account maintains that man was specifically and specially created by God, that God "breathed" in His own Spirit into the spirit of man. In other words, all of life, aside from man, may be the product of evolution, but man, as he is, is not.

580 posted on 09/20/2006 10:42:00 AM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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