Re: Special Creation

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 07:57:10 -0600
  "Walley, John " <John.Walley@BellSouth.com> wrote:
> There is another important theological point that is
>being missed here
> as well. If Adam was not the first human and the Imago
>Dei did not make
> him genetically different from the others, there is
>nothing to prevent
> his offspring from interbreeding with them, and then
>considering a local
> non-universal flood, this opens a can of worms of
>implications about
> modern man that I don't think any of us want to
>consider.
>
> I think this is in part why there is a tendency among
>some to keep Adam
> the product of special creation.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
>

But if special creation means that Adam was created
unrelated to existing creatures, the scientific evidence
is clearly against this.

For David:
My problem with your view is that if God "fashioned, made"
Adam from existing materials, why didnt the author use the
same word that he used for Eve when she was fashioned out
of Adam's rib?
Received on Wed Mar 1 13:19:51 2006