Re: [asa] Neo-Darwinism and God's action

From: gordon brown <Gordon.Brown@Colorado.EDU>
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 15:46:56 EST

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, David Opderbeck wrote:

> One classical answer to this problem -- not limited to YECs -- is that God
> created free beings because of love. In his love, God desires us to have
> freedom; but freedom implies the ability to choose wrongly.

Do we need to define what we mean by freedom? It is implied that freedom
is good but has to have a downside. If it is good, then presumably we will
have it in the next life, but will it have to have a downside there too?

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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