RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs - attn Moorad

Thanks George for correcting my message. I am in Raleigh using my daughter's computer, which is an Apple, and I am not very acquainted with it. The point is that even if one totally believes the evolution of man from lower forms of animals, that in itself does not tell us who man really is.

Moorad

-----Original Message-----
From: George Murphy [mailto:GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com]
Sent: Sat 11/1/2008 7:59 PM
To: Alexanian, Moorad; Merv; asa@calvin.edu
Subject: Re: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs - attn Moorad
 
Moorad -

There can be legitimate debate about whether or not scientific theories of evolution can provide a complete understanding of what it means to be human, but it's a great overstatement toi say that they do not tell us "anything whatsoever who man is." (I think you must have intended to say something like "does not tell [not "the"] us anything whatsoever about who man is." If not your meaning is unclear.)

Shalom
George
http://home.neo.rr.com/scitheologyglm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu>
To: "Merv" <mrb22667@kansas.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:12 PM
Subject: RE: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs - attn Moorad

>I do agree that theological or metaphysical questions have to be raised since many of us do believe that telling us how man evolved from lower forms of animals does not the us anything whatsoever who man is. The latter is answered only on theological grounds. Accordingly, non-theistic evolutionary theory is incomplete.
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> Moorad
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu on behalf of Merv
> Sent: Sat 11/1/2008 11:39 AM
> To: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: [asa] Advice for conversing with YECs - attn Moorad
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> Moorad asked:
>> What scientific questions creation by TE answers that cannot be answered by
>> ordinary, non-theistic evolutionary theory?
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> None.
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> I assumed your question was: What questions does the TE (EC) position
> create that can't be answered by non-theistic evolutionary theory?
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> 'scientific' questions are answered by science.
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> EC's distinctives are that it recognizes the place of science inside a
> larger theological context. The theological questions EC raises can't
> be answered by science at all.
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> --Merv
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