ordon,
I know and understand those Scriptures. I guess I was trying to speculate on
implications of God creating the universe as he did.You are right as to the
unknowability of God's purpose, apart from revelation. But it certainly is
peculiar from a human viewpoint that he created the universe he did in the
way that he did, if his only concern is one species living on a small planet
of a small sun in one galaxy.
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To: Shuan Rose
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on the implications of evolution as a means of
creation
Shuan,
Only by revelation can we know what God's purposes are. We shouldn't
assume that He does what we think we would do if we were in His shoes.
Time is not the constraint to Him that it is to us. He has a different
take on the significance of physical size. Here are some scriptures that
seem relevant: Psalm 8:3,4; 139:6; 90:4; II Peter 3:8; Isaiah 55:9; Romans
11:33.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Shuan Rose wrote:
> One of the objections raised to the concept of God creating though
evolution
> is, Why would God use a process that would take 15 billion years? Was he
> simply twiddling his thumbs waiting for Man's appearance?
>
> The flaw in such thinking is that assumes that the sole purpose for God's
> creation of the universe was the creation of man. I believe that we need
to
> stretch our idea of what God's purposes are for the creation of the
> universe. Astronomers tell us that it’s a big universe out there, with
> billions and billions of stars. It seems far too big for its purpose to
be
> the creation of man alone.
>
> Suppose God’s purpose in creating the universe was the creation of
> intelligence. One way would be to create a vast universe, and let a
zillion
> evolutionary experiments begin. The intelligences may evolve at different
> rates, at different times. It is possible that God may even be in
fellowship
> with many different intelligences right now, one of which is Homo Sapiens.
>
> Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury was imagined something like this. He
> wrote one short story, in which Christ visited many different worlds. He
> wrote a story on the same theme, “ Christo Apollo”. C. S. Lewis’ science
> fiction trilogy, “ Out of the Silent Planet” also had the idea of
different
> intelligences knowing God.
>
> If we get to travel to other stars, and find alien intelligence there, we
> may find that they already know the one God. Wouldn’t that be cool.
>
>
>
> Shuan Rose
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>
>
>
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