Ahh, so this site has changed locations! Too much for Phil or he's
changed his interests, or what???
Actually, I am writing only to get some opinions from the group
regarding the following statement originally posted to the MereLewis
group as part of a discussion on "life on Mars" (meteorite with supposed
fossilized bacteria). If you respond, please post (or at lest copy) to
me directly, as I no longer subscribe to this group (can't do both
MereLewis and evolution -- too much volume) although I occasionally
check the archives and I do miss you guys.
> The theory of evolution as the explanation for speciation is a thoroughly
> proved one. You need only go the classic example of the moth Biston
> bistularia (sp?) to see it in action.
>
> This however, neither proves nor disproves the divine origin of life, the
> universe & everything. Whether you take Genesis to be a true myth or a
> verbatim historical account doesn't matter. You either start with the
> assumption that God exists - or not. Lewis has shown that the former
> (once assumed) is more probable and seems to account better for life-as-we
> know-it, but (as he wrote in his essay on the persistence in belief
> [faith]) honorable men can (and have) taken either side.
Under the Mercy,
Elaine
Elaine Turner, MD, FACP
Allergy and Clinical Immunology
elturn@richmond.infi.net
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"There comes a moment when people who have been
dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!)
suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him?
We never meant it to come to that! Worse still,
supposing He had found us?"
C.S. Lewis: Miracles, ch. 11
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