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To: betty boop
“Don't get me wrong. God is the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe and everything in it, including you and me — but this is so regardless of how old or young we conjecture the universe may be from our human standpoint.” betty boop

Excellent point, I would add that in addition to the AGE of something being immaterial to the fact that it was created by God, so too is the mechanism of creation immaterial to the fact that God is responsible for its creation.

Discovering the mechanisms of biological evolution no more means that God didn't create all life any more than discovering the mechanisms of nuclear fusion means that God doesn't make the Sun shine.

844 posted on 06/22/2009 9:52:20 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: allmendream; Alamo-Girl; TXnMA; mrjesse; hosepipe; LeGrande; Hank Kerchief; xzins; logos; metmom
...in addition to the AGE of something being immaterial to the fact that it was created by God, so too is the mechanism of creation immaterial to the fact that God is responsible for its creation.

Well that's certainly true allmendream. The only problem is TToE has nothing whatever to say about the Creation except that it was somehow "mechanical" or a mechanistic event. Theist evos turn God into the cosmic Watchmaker. But still evo theory doesn't have a clue how God made the watch. They just try to explain how it goes on ticking.

Darwin's theory is ineluctibly in the grip of the Newtonian Paradigm and the "Cartesian metaphor" of the Universe conceived as machine. If we want to understand the origin of Life, this is the WRONG MODEL!!!!!!

You'd think biologists of all people would be interested in this question.

At the end of the day, to me TToE is ultimately a doctrine, just as YEC is a doctrine. Both would seem to need serious, rational reexamination.

JMHO FWIW

845 posted on 06/22/2009 10:10:07 AM PDT by betty boop (Tyranny is always whimsical. — Mark Steyn)
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