Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mmh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Core of the Bible (was Re: Calendar Time) Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 91 18:29:48 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 20 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article allenroy@cs.pdx.edu (callen roy) writes: >The Theory of Evolution does do away with God and a loving reationship with >Him. It does away with the Falling away from the loving relationship with >God. By doing away with 'sin', it does away with the need for a saviour. I do not see how Evolution does away with sin. Evolution describes a method by which God gradually fashioned the diversity of species we see in the world today. How else could it have been done? When a potter makes a pot it is gradually fashioned from a lump of clay - it is not instantly magicked into existence. So why should some think it necessary to believe that God magicked the world into existence rather than created it as a craftsman would create an object? Evolution does not describe how self-consciouness and free will could have come into existence. At this point creation is no longer under the full control of God - it has an independent will. This is what we mean by the "Fall". Matthew Huntbach