Re: [asa] Fw: November Newsletter from Reasonable Faith

From: David Clounch <david.clounch@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 18:47:22 EST

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Ted Davis <TDavis@messiah.edu> wrote:

> Well, Schwarzwald, in a word: Yes.
>

If unevolved means non-natural, then yes. Well.... then maybe.

TE's surely believe alien intelligences are evolved, natural,
non-transcendental, yet made by God. And if they have the ability to
engineer the evolution of other lifeforms.......

How is it they would be god?

>
> At least in this context: the context is how the universe came to have the
> order we discern, and an "unevolved intelligence" in this context can only
> be a creator. Would you disagree?
>

I disagree. Cosmological evolution is different than biological evolution.
The latter is simply re-arranging pre-existing matter. It has nothing to do
with creating matter or laws of nature.

Cheers, Dave

>
> Ted
>
> >>> Schwarzwald <schwarzwald@gmail.com> 11/12/2009 3:24 PM >>>
> Ted,
>
> Before I dig into a greater reply on this, I have to ask: Are you telling
> me
> that any "unevolved intelligence" would by definition be God?
>
>
>
>
>
> To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
> "unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
>

To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Thu Nov 12 18:47:35 2009

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Nov 12 2009 - 18:47:35 EST