Hi Dick,
You asked me last night if I had read your letter to Blake posted on the list
serve. I said "No," and asked you to forward me a copy. You did. Thanks. My
list serve copy of it showed up at about the same time as the copy you sent
me. I guess your letter to Blake took quite a while to be read by the
moderator before he declared it fit for public consumption. This moderator
business really slows things down. I think the warning followed by expulsion
idea would have been better.
In your letter to Blake you wrote: Therefore, when one declares that it is
not possible for man to have descended from the apes when the Bible declares
that we all were created in the image of God. We can say that it is. Adam,
who lived about 7,000 years ago was created in the image, and generic man
descended from higher primates.
I think it is just as easy for us to explain that the creating of man in
God's image involved giving highly evolved primates moral consciences, minds
that were able to understand spiritual things, and most importantly, eternal
spirits.
You wrote: On the flip side, we have those who reject the gospel message
since they believe that because we descended from apes, therefore the Bible
cannot be true.
I tell people that Gen.1:26,27 describes God's creation of the human race
prior to His creation of Adam and Eve. When I do I point out to them that
Gen. 1:26,27 does not tell us exactly how God then made man. Gen. 2:7 tells
us that God made Adam from the dust of the ground. However, Gen:1:26,27 does
not tell us what materials God used to make the preadamic human race.
I think either way of explaining things works just fine. It would, however,
be nice if we could agree on this matter. I guess it would be a lot easier at
this point for me to agree with you, rather than vise versa. Seeing you have
a whole bunch of books already in print and I don't. : )
Mike
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