-----Original Message-----
From: Howard J. Van Till [mailto:hvantill@novagate.com]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:50 AM
To: Woodward Norm Civ WRALC/TIEDM; Dale K Stalnaker; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: Intelligent Design discussion in Columbus, OH
>From: Woodward Norm Civ WRALC/TIEDM <Norm.Woodward@robins.af.mil>
> Your "Presbyterian minister" wrote-
> "But unlike the backers of intelligent design, I don't pretend to be naive
> or clever about the Author of creation -- about the One who not only
called
> light out of darkness but created the darkness itself and who is the One
in
> whom I live and move and have my being."
> (Emphasis mine)
>
> Personally, I would check the credentials of anyone who worships the One
who
> "...created the darkness itself..."
"I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create
disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things." Isaiah 45: 7.
Looks like you need to do a credentials check on Isaiah.
Obviously...the verse before refers to "sunrise" and "sunset," and we know
that those geocentrists can't be trusted.
As a loyal concordist, I could try to build my case that, in the original,
"created darkness.." was a participle clause, so that it COULD mean to "form
light" would result in "creating darkness." But then I would have to
defend the rest of the verse, with parallel construction, by use of "Zero
Sum" economics.
So, instead, I will plead guilty of, once again, shooting from the lip.
Good catch, Howard!
Norm
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