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From: <RFaussette@aol.com>
To: "Dick Fischer" <dickfischer@earthlink.net>; ""ASA"" <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: The Oldest Homo Sapiens: Fossils Push Human Emergence BackTo
195,000 Years Ago
> Dick wrote:
> In essence, separating the Adam of Genesis, recognizing that he is first
> of the covenant, from whatever ancient hominid might have started our
> species is the only workable solution, and it is the one solution everyone
> avoids. Hello ... Is anybody listening?
>
> rich:
> I don't avoid it Dick. I meet it head on. In fact, I come to that very
> conclusion in True Religion but no one here is ready to move that fast to
> embrace evolution by interpreting genesis from an evolutionary
> perspective.
But please recognize that that doesn't mean a failure to embrace evolution
simpliciter. I, & some others, think that the appropriate way of embracing
evolution is to interpret the scientific understanding of evolution from a
theological perspective (based on, inter alia, Genesis) rather than vice
versa.
Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Tue Mar 1 14:46:26 2005
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