RE: Kansas munchkins (as Gould will call them)

The Christian faith has an answer to the question of why death, which was reversed by the death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. Last night a six-year-old girl died in a car accident in Raleigh, NC. She was a student in my grandson's school. Why this death? I do not know. Since death is not the end but the beginning, her whereabouts is good according to the Christian faith. However, her death becomes our problem and what effect it has on all these who know of it. Diseases and afflictions, according to the Christian faith, are a consequence of the Fall. Why is that so? Besides the physical laws that govern the physical aspect of Nature, there are laws that govern the moral aspect of humans. All the laws have a designer, viz. God the Creator of all that is.

Moorad

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Subject: Re: Kansas munchkins (as Gould will call them)

On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:15:26 -0500 "Stephen J.Krogh, P.G."
<panterragroup@mindspring.com> writes:
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> > Even if no ailments and diseases exited, let us not forget death.
> Is death
> intelligently designed? Or else, are we to have paradise on earth?
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> > Moorad
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> It must be some kind of designed, or built-in failsafe mechanism to
> prevent
> catastrophic overpopulation.
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The alternative would be a static universe, either lifeless or with life
that did not grow, age or reproduce. There is a related matter, a
universe in which there could not be a fall. It would also be one in
which there would be no choice to love and obey the Creator--like the pop
up on a computer screen telling the individual how great he is or the
older Coueeism, which mean nothing.

There are always those individuals who are certain that they are bright
enough to improve on the Creator's design. But, since the devil is in the
details, it always turns out that the improvement is more of a
catastrophe. As the old saw has it, he has all the answers because he
doesn't understand any of the questions. The intelligent thing is to try
to understand the creation. The attempt to work out the scientific
aspects are, according to current reports, leading to a data overload.
Additionally, I keep encountering statements that the new generation of
investigators need to understand multiple fields. Then I recall what I
was told by a group of physicists at Berkeley several decades back: they
could expect to understand only one in five of the articles in the
/Journal of Physics/, which fifth depending on their area of
specialization. Earlier the dean of a small college told me that they
gave a minor in physics, but could no longer depend on one person to
teach all the courses required.
Dave
Received on Tue May 24 13:09:02 2005