Re: Dust and vanity

jim bell (JamesScottBell@compuserve.com)
Wed, 31 Dec 1997 15:40:10 -0500

Message text written by Glenn Morton

<<Thank you Jim, It is nice to have you back.>>

I never really left, but I've been so busy I haven't been able to be
active. I'm afraid I'll have to be terse here, too (imagine that, and me a
lawyer).

<<I have always viewed Genesis
1:24 as indicating secondary causation in the creation of the critters.
The
land did the bringing forth at God's command. In a sense, God let the land

do it and He didn't get his hands dirty.>>

I'm still confused. Where is the indication of "secondary causation"? And
what exactly does that mean here?

JB>I forgot, Glenn. What's the Hebrew word for "chromosomal fusion" again?

GM>ADAM!

Oh yeah, I saw that in the new book "Hebrew, Hoax and Hilarity: Making
Words Mean What You Want Them To Mean." ;-)

Stay off those Texas roads tonight.

Jim