Adam Crowl wrote:
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> >To some degree the misuse of this issue seems to serve Gould right for his
> >excessive emphasis on randomness in Wonderful Life and the like.
>
> "Contingency" is a better word. The vagaries of history...
>
> However,
> >the ability of different people to use the same evidence to support total
> >indeterminancy and special design suggests that the evidence is not the
> >basis for the decision in either case.
& since theological or antitheological presuppositions come into such decisions
& it's best to make them explicit, note that the emphasis on contingency is what the
biblical view of election might lead us to expect. & election, for good
supralapsarians, comes before creation.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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