Re: [asa] Opposing Anti-Evolution

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  From: Rich Blinne
  To: RFaussette@aol.com
  Cc: pleuronaia@gmail.com ; asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:39 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Opposing Anti-Evolution

  On 7/13/06, RFaussette@aol.com <RFaussette@aol.com> wrote:
    In a message dated 7/13/2006 1:33:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, pleuronaia@gmail.com writes:
      The principle is illustrated well in Prince Caspian. Governor Gumpas claims that the money from the slave trade is necessary for "progress". Caspian claims that this "progress" is more properly called "Going Bad."

      Taking a scientific principle other than evolution may help illustrate the point. Gravity tells us that masses tend to attract each other. However, a book on my shelf does not become better by falling to the floor, and I certainly cannot invoke gravity as a moral imperative for me to drop heavy things off high places. Yet people are believed when they make equally silly claims invoking evolution.
    That's not what the bible says. The bible says God favors the learned.

  19For it is written:
     "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
        the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."

   20Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

  Excellent point. & Paul goes on to illustrate it with the Corinthian Christians themselves - "Not many were wise after the flesh &." "Not many" suggests that some were learned but that this was not the reason God called them.
  If God favored the learned he would have chosen the Egyptians rather than their Hebrew slaves.

  Shalom
  George
  http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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