Re: Special Creation

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 08:57:03 -0500
  "David Opderbeck" <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Man is God's final and greatest creation, and that Man
> was made to have a relationship with God here on Earth
>and
> that this was to be eternal, then why wouldnt you start
> with a fresh and perfect genome? It is the creation of
> imperfection that I think is a contradiction, therefore
> illogical.*
>
> Well, the same argument would prevail against any form
>of theistic
> evolution, or indeed against any concept of creation,
>wouldn't it?

No, in TE the genome is present through millenia of
evolution. Somewhere along the line God created Man, and
I dont know exactly what that means, but TE doesnt require
Adam to be specially created out of the dust like the RTB
model does.

   I don't
> have a huge problem with that. I suppose God developed
>the human genome to
> the point where it was suitable for the sort of creature
>on which He desired
> to impart the imago Dei in the environment in which we
>live. The creative
> process He used to do that leaves traces like
>pseudogenes and such -- kind
> of like how you can use infared and xrays to see the
>pencil sketches and
> early brushstrokes underlying a painted masterpiece.
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 3 10:37:46 2006