David Opderbeck wrote:
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GRM: For God to create a new creatures which had the same features as the apes to which they are not supposed to be related yet include both microscopic and nannoscopic features in a nested hierachy is just crazy.
But in the "genetic dust" scenario, they are related. Really really. Not just an appearance of relatedness. Why would it be "crazy" for God to create this way? Why is this any more "crazy" than any other way?
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This is related to the YEC appearance of age argument in which God carefully crafts a universe with an appearance of age. The age is al illusion. And because God must do multiple different things, many of which are totally unnecessary for the functioning of the universe, this view makes God the Great Deciever. He would have to know how his data would be interpreted, yet he goes ahead and fools us.
With the genetic argument you are making you have the appearance of relatedness. They are not related because they are cooked up from new and God then has to make everything about mankind LOOK like he was evolved from the apes when in fact that evolution is an illusion. Thus, once again, God becomes the Great Deceiver. It is amazing to me how willing we Christians are to place God, who supposedly doesn't lie, into positions of being the Great Deceiver all for the purpose of saving our pet theological views.
David wrote:
>>>No more than he paid for the defibrillator that he used to wake up that monkey a few million years ago.<<<
He didnt use a defibrilator. He used MIRACLE. I know it is a quaint concept, totally outdated today and only held to by the fringe. But at least this fringe has a more reasonable source for the genes that appear to make us related to the apes. I have a body which contains full strength DNA. You have degraded DNA in dirt which has to be carefully fitted back together first and cloned. The artificial creatures created thusly, only appear to have had apes as ancestors, but, the Great Deceiver doesn't care about his deception
But I will give you this, in a sense the main difference between us is the source of hte DNA. So, why is yours so much better? Scientifically the most likely explanation is that there was no miracle, no ape to resurrect, and we are simply evolved from the apes--no special creation at all.
Received on Sat Mar 4 07:12:59 2006