RE: [asa] ORIGINS: pseudogenes are overwhelming evidence for evolution...?

"For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God." 1 Cor. 2:11.
 
Moorad

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Subject: Re: [asa] ORIGINS: pseudogenes are overwhelming evidence for evolution...?

        Unless the creation was instantaneous, the same problem arises.
        

That's a good question. Why would God make a creation using any process or time at all? Why start with a world that is formless and void rather than making it perfectly complete from the start?

For that matter, why stop at questioning the past when we can also question the present: why did God bother to make a universe that operates according to natural processes in the present? Why didn't God just sit us down in a supernatural classroom in Heaven where we can see Him directly? Why bother with all this gravity and thermodynamics, etc.?

I have always assumed the answer is that God "hides from the wise" and reveals himself to babes. He also sends a "stong delusion" on those who do not love the truth. He "speaks in parables" and tells Isaiah to render the people unhearing lest they believe and return. The world itself can be seen as an extended parable.

If God made a world without a process, or if he did not make a world at all, then He would be a pretty poor hider and all his parables would fail. I think the purpose of this world of natural processes is to separate us from the immediacy of God so that we can be ignorant until the time that we are called to repent and return. I assume angels do not repent precisely because they do not live in a universe separated from the immediacy of God, and hence their rebellion was already complete when it first occurred. But we were made to be able to repent, and so we live in physics where we do not see God face-to-face.

Also, I think the ingenuity of the physics that provides these processes does tell us about the glory of God. If we couldn't tell that the process had actually occurred, then we wouldn't have the fun of discovering God's ingenuity in physics.

those are the only explanations I can think of.

Phil
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