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- From: alanf@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Alan M Feuerbacher)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: design in living organisms
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:31:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.070436.12674@athena.cs.uga.edu> <102252@bu.edu> <1992Nov18.123429.6757@city.cs>
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- In article <1992Nov18.123429.6757@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
- > [....]
- >This is a sad consequence of mankind's rebellion against God,
- >aka the Fall.
- >Genesis 3:16
- >16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy
- > conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy
- > desire hall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
- >
- >Your description of difficult childbirth is correct, and is just one
- >example of many things in creation which were originally perfectly
- >designed, but have been corrupted because of the Fall.
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- So you're saying that God changed Eve's genetic makeup so that she
- became unable to bear children without extreme pain? Is this
- consistent with a loving God?
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- Is it consistent with God's explicit statement that if Adam and Eve
- disobeyed him they would die, *not* be genetically damaged?
-
- Alan Feuerbacher
- alanf@atlas.pen.tek.com
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