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From: coatta@cs.ubc.ca (Terry Coatta)
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Subject: Original Sin
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Date: 12 Aug 90 08:23:27 GMT
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I am curious about the degree to which the downfall of Man effected the
rest of creation.  Since it was Adam and Eve's choice to tuurn away from
God, it is not surprising that their actions would merit the introduction
of suffering and death into their lives.  But the rest of creation (well,
aside from the snake if you want to view it as just another creature) was
good in the eyes of God.  Why does it too suffer from death and decay.  Is
that the natural order for rest of creation?  I am trying to form an idea
of the extent to which the natural world (i.e. the world minus mankind)
today is a reflection of that natural world which God created and saw was
good in Genesis.

Terry Coatta (coatta@cs.ubc.ca)
Dept. of Computer Science, UBC, Vancouver BC, Canada

`What I lack in intelligence, I more than compensate for with stupidity'