RE: Hello

Rivers, Will (riversw@spawar.navy.mil)
Sat, 4 Jul 1998 08:42:24 -0400

I, too, am struggling with these two concepts. I am beginning to think
that if God is creating something of us by the method of evolution, that
he is not yet finished (by a long shot) and religion helps focus us in
the "general" direction, but religion, too must evolve as our species
continues to grow. Maybe one day, long into the future, we as a species
may have some value to our God?!

Will Rivers

-----Original Message-----
From: Hofmann, Jim [SMTP:jhofmann@Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU]
Sent: Friday, July 03, 1998 11:21 PM
To: 'Arthur Witherall '; 'evolution@calvin.edu '
Subject: RE: Hello


I think you've got it exactly right Arthur. Can you send me a
reference
for the Chesterton passage? After all, he is the master of the
paradox!

Jim Hofmann
Philosophy Department
Cal State Fullerton
jhofmann@fullerton.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Witherall
To: evolution@calvin.edu
Sent: 7/3/98 8:06 PM
Subject: Hello

Hello

I am completely new to this. I happened to notice that most
people in
this group are either creationists or sceptics about fully
naturalistic
evolution. I would love to know why.

It seems to me that there is no inconsistency whatsoever between
theism
and evolution. G. K. Chesterton said it best when he said that a
creationist believes that God created mankind, but he doesn't
have to
specify how long it took God to do this, nor exactly which
mechanism was
employed. Am I missing something about the relationship between
these
two theories - that is, theism and evolution - which everyone
else has
grasped?

Cheers
AW