>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vernon Jenkins [mailto:vernon.jenkins@virgin.net]
>Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 12:27 AM
>To: CMSharp01@aol.com; Glenn Morton
>Cc: asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: Creation Ex Nihilo
>Now Glenn's response to such remarkable factual evidence is to ask
>"Evidence for what?". According to the Scripture, it is evidence that
>has the power to make one wise. You will ask, In what sense? Well, once
>one sees that such coincidences (and there are a multitude more) can
>have arisen neither by chance nor by human device, then it has to be
>acknowledged that they have been engineered and brought to our attention
>at this point in time by the Lord.
Vernon, you really misunderstand my question. First, if such 'coincidences'
can be found in any ole book, then it is not very special. I would contend
that such coincidences can be found but you never look. I have seen such
things propounded for Moby Dick. Secondly, you are adding a profoundly
Pythagorean theology upon the Bible--which I find a bit like adding to the
Bible. So when I ask 'evidence for what?' I mean these two items. Is it
possible that such coincidences found in other books is evidence that they
are special or is all of this evidence that Pythagoras, in his reverence of
holy geometry and math was really correct and that we should worship
Pythagoras' god?
I suggest that, were such evidences
>available to SETI, the 'Extraterrestial Life Discovered!' bells would be
>tolling loud and long in every corner of the globe.
The world did recieve one message which appears to be intelligently sent. No
bells rang--because no one believed it was anything more than a statistical
fluke. See
http://www.bigear.org/6equj5.htm
But the reality here
>is rather different. As enemies of God (even after we become Christian,
>or so it seems) we regard this as 'bad news' because it highlights the
>extent to which many of us have wilfully manipulated God's Word in the
>name of the god 'Science'. A case in point concerns the Flood. How
>anyone, having read the narrative of Gen.6-8 and our Lord's
>corroboration of the matter (Mt.24:36-39), can reasonably conclude -
>and attempt to convince others - that this was a purely 'local' matter -
>selectively destroying some men and some species of animals - is surely
>breathtakingly arrogant.
Since there is a finite probability that this charge of arrogance might be
aimed at me, I think I should inform you that I believe in an
anthropologically universal flood that was areally limited.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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