Re: [asa] Random and design

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Don Winterstein wrote:

>
> When I use expressions like God's having "better things to do" I'm well
> aware--as the reader should be also--that I'm going to extremes in the
> direction of anthropomorphism; nevertheless, the point I was making is
> worth heeding IMO. Why "saddle God unnecessarily with such drudgery"
> [caution: extreme anthropomorphism] when there are plausible
> alternatives (see my reply to Siemens)? And why should anyone assume
> what God knows or doesn't know? There's no scriptural support for the
> idea that God knows in advance how every particle since the big bang is
> going to behave.

When the Bible was written, people didn't know about the existence of
subatomic particles. Instead, to give them something that meant something
to them, Jesus spoke (Matt. 10:30) of the very hairs of their heads being
numbered.

Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395

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Received on Fri Nov 24 18:52:09 2006