Yes, thank you for clarifying this, Iain. It may indeed be that there is a 'stuggle for survival' or 'struggle for life' when people are cramped into a small place, and defending oneself sometimes means taking the offensive against others. A different option is to band together and make the best of the situation. Malthus' principle of population goes against the non-struggle option, yet the Bible speaks of fellowship and kingdom-seeking.
Surely 'the creation' is evolving, changing, adapting, adjusting, at least in a bio-physical sense, if not in *all* other ways. I wonder if most people out there think 'choice' is an evolutionary adaptation? The brain gets big enough and then one special day, poof!, a choice is made, forever defining human history?
Gregory
Iain Strachan <igd.strachan@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe we are placed in an evolving creation, where a ruthless struggle for survival is going on, so that we can see the difference when God reveals himself - with a gospel that is the antithesis of evolution - how directly opposite of evolution to sacrifice your life, not to ensure the survival of the fittest, but of the weak (ie imperfect sinners like you and me)? Maybe the reason the creation is evolving is to show us that we can CHOOSE to do the right thing.
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