Re: > PC vs. TE (Will it ever end?)
Eduardo G. Moros (moros@castor.wustl.edu)
Wed, 07 Jan 1998 11:41:08 -0600Vandergraaf, Chuck wrote:
>
> I had thoughts along the same vein as Karen and Eduardo. Genesis 1 tells
> us that "God saw that it [whatever He created] was good." Adam (or Eve)
> would therefore not have suffered from any genetic disorder before the
> fall and one can postulate that subsequent genetic disorders were the
> result of Original Sin. In other words, something (Satan) interfered
> with the transmission of the genetic information (sorry, I'm not a
> geneticist; I hope this makes sense) and God let him (is Satan male?)
> get away with it (for a while, anyway). This is something that one can
> visualize.
>
> Is it possible that God allowed Satan to muck around with physical
> processes as well? Could Satan have distorted the geological record to
> put it at odds with Special Revelation? I realize that this would knock
> the props from under all geological sciences and that it would be an
> "easy way out" of the apparent contradictions between the Special and
> General revelations. How powerful is Satan anyway?
>
> Shalom!
Although the work of Satan in the curse of creation is a possibility, I think
Genesis tell us that was God's wrath the direct cause for the curse. I do not
share your views of the possibility of Satan messing the geological record.
> Chuck Vandergraaf
> Pinawa, MB
>
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> >From: Eduardo G. Moros[SMTP:moros@castor.wustl.edu]
> >Sent: January 7, 1998 9:32 AM
> >To: List ASA
> >Subject: > PC vs. TE (Will it ever end?)
> >
> ><<File: 0074.html>>
> >> PC vs. TE (Will it ever end?)
> >>
> >> Dick Fischer (dfischer@mnsinc.com)
> >>
> >> ID doesn't work for me. If we are the product of ID, why do we
> >> suffer from over 3,000 genetic disorders?
> >
> >Augustine's Original Sin which brought a curse on creation !!
> >