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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (beth d. christy)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: What is this thing called life?
Message-ID: <387@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 17:57:30 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 30 17:57:30 1985
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> From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois), Message-ID: <993@uwmacc.UUCP>
>> --JB  (not Elizabeth, not Beth Ann, not Mary Beth...Just Beth)
>> Creationists don't usually deal with the issue of
>> where that really unique form of life came from, and when they do they
>> usually make wierd faces and say something like it "always existed".  But
>> they do seem to believe that life on earth came from non-life, especially
>> if they buy the Genesis account of God creating Adam from dust (and, of
>> course, the old dust-to-dust stuff).
>> 
>> Comments?
>
> Sure.
>
> Evolutionists claim that they do not have to account for the origin
> of the matter from which life arose.  Why then should creationists have
> to account for the origin of the creator from which life arose?

I wasn't saying that "creationists have to account for the origin of the
creator".  I was merely distinguishing the origin of the life of the
*creator* from the origin of life *on earth*.  The original posting was
an attempt to state succinctly my interpretation of creationist beliefs
regarding the origin of life *on earth*, and I wanted to make sure I
didn't imply that (I thought that) creationists believed the same thing
about the origin of the creator.  (Saying that creationists believe that
the *creator* arose from non-life would *really* have caused a fury -
since it's almost undoubtedly not true.)  Sorry I was unclear there.

-- 

--JB  (not Elizabeth, not Beth Ann, not Mary Beth...Just Beth)