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From: feikema@mmm.UUCP (John Feikema)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: Christianity vs Evolution
Message-ID: <188@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 14:44:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 14:44:03 1985
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Reply-To: feikema@mmm.UUCP (John Feikema)
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)In terms of science, creation is not valid in principle in the first place.
>Therefore, there is no place for creation in science.
>
>Christianity is a religion.  Religions conflict with science in, among other
>things, that they freely recognize the magical and the supernatural as real
>entities some times using them as foundations.  The idea of a set of one or
>more superior beings is a popular one.  Creation is an idea in Christianity
>that uses a single superior being (God) as a foundation.
>
>Keebler { hua@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu }


Just a few comments here. I hesistate to speak for a "Creationists" but there
were a few statements I felt it was important to respond to. Religion (at
least Christianity) doesn't freely recognize the majical and supernatural as
real entities, at least not in the sense that I think you mean. Christianity
is based on the fact that an omnipotent being, GOD, created the world. This
creation was not "outside" of physical laws. In fact GOD is the basis fo
physics itself. When present day Quantum mechanics was first being theorized,
many aspects of Newtonian physics had to be enhanced. I believe that it is the
same with creation itself. GOD created the universe and man, HE did it with the
laws of physics that HE wrote, HE continues to operate within those laws.
Miracles, and even original human thought is merely evidence that the laws
of physics that GOD wrote, are orders of magnitute above our present 
understanding and perhaps even our ability to understand (although I 
certainly advocate trying) the real fabric of the universe.


John Feikema


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