Re: [asa] AIG -- Scientists! Give it up!

Debbie,
Your statement that there is "virtually no way that the first life
occurred on its own" needs a qualification--at the current level of
understanding. Recall that about a century and a half ago it was held
impossible for organic compounds to be produced without living organisms.
The problem was that no one knew enough chemistry. Half a century ago it
was a matter of firm belief that amino acids could not be found anyplace
except earth. But we've found them in many other places. Does life
require fiat creation? I don't know. I do know that the Almighty could
have designed the universe so that life could arise without need of any
later nudge. He could also have set it up to need constant intervention,
but we rather find the constancy of "natural law," Luther's "masks of
God." However, the notion that God could have made the earth seem
billions of years old though recently created would have him deliberately
misleading honest investigators. Does this coincide with the One whose
Son declared himself "the Truth"? What is physically possible (because
not disprovable) is not necessarily morally possible.
Dave

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 11:18:24 -0400 "Debbie Mann"
<deborahjmann@insightbb.com> writes:

Besides, the truth is generally somewhere in the middle. It is trivially
true that God could have made the earth to seem to be billions of years
old. It is also trivially true that every occurrence that could happen,
did happen and the expanse of time and space is such to accomodate it.

However, commenting on the latter, from what I've read about biology,
there is virtually no way that the first life occurred on its own. Beyond
that, given our place in space and time and our condition, things could
have progressed.

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Received on Tue Jul 25 15:38:18 2006