Re: [asa] Time: God vs. Science

Bob,
Taking a cue from Augustine, God wouldn't have taken 6 days either. One
alternative to instant creation is that God's salvific purpose in
creation is best met through a long development. Otherwise, he created
the world in such a way as to deliberately mislead honest investigators,
or he couldn't get if right at the start and had to experiment (like the
automotive engineers during the 70s, for example), or, as in process
theology, he is limited in power or tied to the universe and has to try
to persuade the "physical" creation to come along.
Dave

On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:42:30 -0500 "Robert Schneider"
<rjschn39@bellsouth.net> writes:
Pim quotes Dawkins, as follows:

<quote>DAWKINS: I think that's a tremendous cop-out. If God wanted to
create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should
choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years
before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years
until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the
other things religious people are interested in.</quote>

Bob: Oddly, this sounds a lot like an argument that Henry Morris used
against evolution: God would not wait around for billions of years for
human beings to evolve. I'm confident that God has already answered
Morris's. Perhaps some day Dawkins will hear it too, after he has gotten
over the shock of meeting God.

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Received on Sun Nov 5 23:31:36 2006