From: Jan de Koning (jan@dekoning.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 14:11:46 EST
At 06:52 AM 13/02/2003 +0100, Peter Ruest wrote in part:
>Dear friends,
>
>there has been quite some discussion recently about the origin of
>biological information, which I greatly enjoyed (Don Winterstein, Jim
>Armstrong, Blake Nelson, Robert Schneider, David Campbell,..). The
>question was how evolution of complex biological systems can happen, and
>whether God might be feeding in information, e.g. by selecting specific
>outcomes from apparently random distributions of mutations (perhaps by
>directing elementary events through specific "collapses" of
>quantum-mechanical probability density functions), or whether he is
>usually just watching what is happening "spontaneously" (apart from a
>difficult-to-describe general providential "maintenance" and holding in
>existence all that occurs), as his creation is fully functional.
I believe, that nothing happens outside God's will or providence. So
happening "spontaneously" does not exist. So, does God "feed", or does God
" . . ." can never be ascertained by human beings. What God did may be
ascertained, but how, and His reasoning will always be a secret for us.
Jan de Koning
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