Re: [asa] Dinosaurs and God

[JJ, I meant to post this as well]
It strikes me that the opportunity for such a catastrophic event is
within the realm of possiblity within Creation, an artifact of Creation
as it is, but unlikely a specifically directed act.
On the other hand, the potential for life to happen, or the nature of it
as introduced, would seem to be more intentional, including its capacity
to survive in some form in an environment such as ours. It is able to
push back against the inorganic scripts to survive, and even in its more
sentient and rational forms, to exploit the physical context, which at
times can be dangerous, or even lethal. How fascinating it is that death
becomes a critical link in the sustained evolutionary chain of life
(looking at it in the big picture, which I'm sure is God's perspective -
it is a HUGE universe)!
Or so it seemeth to me.
JimA

Johan Jammart wrote:

> It is generally agreed that a meteorite (sometimes denied and replace
> by climatic change due to several factors) have caused the extinction
> of the dinosaurs. We can say that the dinosaur have disappear due to
> natural phenomena and not directly by the mechanism of evolution. We
> know too that the extinction of the dinosaurs have let the place for
> hominid to evolve and let the human race arise. How to reconcile these
> facts with the belief in God? Was this great extinction intended by
> God directly or was it just a random natural phenomena? Was this
> extinction predicted by God in His Omniscience when He chose mechanism
> of evolution? I have got many questions on this subject...
>
> Your help, advices and opinions on this would be greatly appreciate!
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Blessings,
>
> Johan
>
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Received on Sun Jan 21 14:44:50 2007