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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins,net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Origins Program on CBN TV
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 16:10:05 EDT
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In article <672@ihu1m.UUCP> jho@ihu1m.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen) writes:
>  They
>also argued that evolution is the philosophy of origins of the secular humanist
>just as creation is the origin philosophy of the Christian.  They tried to
>draw parallels between creationism and and evolution implying that
>both depend on faith and, therefore, are both religions.
>The bottom line is that evolution is the antithesis to Christianity.  

	Hmm, well I have never found that accepting evolutionary
theory has in any way interfered with my Christianity! It seems that
evolution is not quite so tightly connected to secular humanism as
they would have us believe, and not quite so antithetical to Christian
faith.

>The moderator of the program concluded the show by saying that
>
>	If evolution is true then creation must be false.
>		If creation is false then there is no Adam.
>			If there is no Adam then there is no original sin.
>				If there is no original sin then there is no
>					need for redeemer.

	Well, actually both 2 and 3 are questionable premises! In
fact, depending on how youy define "creation", even #1 may be false.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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