Re: OOL: was [asa] Quoting Evolution [was Darwin] out of context

Apologies to Rich for the misunderstanding. It was to Gregory that I was
responding.
Don

RFaussette@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 8/21/2006 5:21:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> d.nield@auckland.ac.nz writes:
>
> In his paper, Rich asks: 'What do scientists say about 'the
> > beginning?' I wonder about this also. Could anyone out there
> suggest a
> > guess about how many scientists (i.e. what percentage) actually
> > pronounce on ‘the beginning’ of life or human existence?
>
> I'm not ready to reply to Gregory, however, you're quoting me out of
> context and going off on a tangent as a result. Here it is in context.
>
>
> If Adam and Eve’s eating of the forbidden fruit from the Tree of the
> Knowledge of Good and Evil is the pivotal event that marks the
> Biblical transition from one consciousness to another and we are to
> apply a Darwinian perspective to the text, we must ask: what is the
> corresponding pivotal event that marks the scientific evolution from
> one consciousness to another? What do scientists say about “the
> beginning?”
>
>
>
> It is the beginning of human life, not all life, not the OOL.
>
>
>
> rich faussette
>

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