Does your confidence also allow for God to have created life by evolutionary
mechanisms?
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Steven S. Clark, Ph.D. Phone: (608) 263-9137
Associate Professor FAX: (608) 263-4226
Dept. of Human Oncology and email: ssclark@facstaff.wisc.edu
UW Comprehensive Cancer Ctr
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53792
"...a university is a collection of disparate academic entrepreneurs united
only by a common grievance over parking." Clark Kerr, former Chancellor
of the Univ. of California
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Man....,
I didn't think I'd cause such a stir. I guess I should have went
into more detail. What I meant to say is that when I hear people
going on around me about creation and evolution, invariably, someone
ends a sentance with something to the effect that, "...but there's no way
that plants could have existed before the creation of the sun." They
imply that there could be a God that created everything, which would
be a miraculous feat, but that same God could not create living plants
in the absence of sunlight. This always amuses me. I didn't mean
to imply that that is my belief, only the irony of the statement.
My own belief in order/evolution better aligns with some of the theories
I've seen espoused here. Actually, to me, it really doesn't matter;
I'm here now, and God made it happen. How He did it only can only give one
a headache, a sore-throat, and sore-fingers. Plus, in a year, the
theory will change anyways :)
Joe "no phd, not even honorary" Faurote
faurote@nortel.com
P.S. I love love your .sig, Steven!!!
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