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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: Re: Evidences for Anthropocentricism
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 21:11:07 EDT
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In article <413@philabs.UUCP> jah@philabs.UUCP (Julie Harazduk) writes:
>
>> 	I would rather say that Genesis is an *allegory*, intended to
>> *illustrate*(not define) the relationship between God and the world.
>> I believe the author was trying to show that the *existing*,
>> *accepted* account of the origin of the world was consistant
>> with God's sovereignity. This is the opposite of what fundamentalists
>> are trying to do!
>> -- 
>> 
>> 				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)
>
>Please elaborate. What do you mean by "*existing* *accepted* account of
>the origin of the world"? There have been several down through the ages.
>What exactly do you think fundamentalists are trying to do?  You never
>really made that clear.
>
	In this case I meant that the author was using the existing,
accepted version *at the time he was writing*.
	Fundamentalist, such as Rev Morris, are trying to remove
modern evolutionary theory from the schools and replace it with the
old Babylonian myth that was current when the book of Genesis was
written.  This is quite the opposite of using the current concept of
origins(now evolutionary theory + cosmological theory) to illustrate
the sovereignty of God over the whole World
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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