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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Arthur Pewtey)
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Subject: Re: God, Science, and believers
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 09:29:19 EDT
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> >Well, here I disagree.  I don't believe the Bible upholds the concept
> >of "God created the basic building blocks, and then they all began
> >evolving into what we have today, including man".  Nope - can't buy
> >that, 'cause the Bible explicitly states that God made each living
> >thing after its own kind.  Also, scientific study has shown that much
> 
> 	BUT, just HOW did God DO it?  Clearly we don't know ALL of WHAT
> 	God did/does, much less HOW He did/does it.  My view is that
> 	science is man's way of finding out How God Works.
> 	
> >of what was thought of as evolution turned out to be the result of
> >passive genes that were stimulated by a different environment - hence,
> <the adaptability was built into the genes to occur - the result is that
> >the living being was still the same species, just showing its pre-
> >programmed adaptability.
> 
> 	I LIKE that idea!  But can I not still ask, "how did God put
> 	those genes in there?"

Note how "believers" of necessity must blithely skip over questions like
"DID god put those genes in there?" and "IS there a god who put those
genese in there?"
-- 
"Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end."
						Rich Rosen   pyuxd!rlr