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- From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik )
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Lionel Tun: evolutionary relic.
- Message-ID: <ksand-211292165328@wintermute.apple.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:56:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.045654.38203@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.045654.38203@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>,
- jsg1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JONATHAN SCOTT GIBSON) wrote:
- > In article <ksand-191292144210@wintermute.apple.com>, ksand@apple.com (Kent Sand
- > vik ) writes:
- > >Yeah, I've asked about that one now for two years, and nobody from
- > >the creation field has provided me with one. It's really sad, and
- > >when there's a lack of a creation based theory (I deliberately left
- > >out Hoyle :-) ), then the next best thing you could do is to sabotage
- > >existing theories.
-
- > Well, the theory of creation goes like this:
- > In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth
- > was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep;
- > and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then
- > God said, "Let ther be light"; and there was light. And God saw that
-
- If this is a *theory*, then it's one of many creation based mythologies,
- where my favourite ones are the Nordic and the Finnish 'creation' theories.
-
- A scientific theory requires *much more* than a good story.
-
- > That is the theory of Creation to whoever asked. Someone had
- > mentioned something about the fact that the world was created so
- > perfectly gave them the creeps or made them feel uncomfortable. The
- > thing is, it was not created perfectly; God did not make man as a
- > robot, He gave him freewill, to choose what to do.
-
- Do you imply that this creator did a bad job when he couldn't even
- create a place where people had free will, but they don't/didn't starve
- to death?
-
- Kent
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