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To: puroresu
We're often told here that we can be a Christian and still believe in evolution, yet the same people who tell us that insist that evolution occurred "on its own" and that it would have occurred exactly the same way whether God exists or not.

Do you think on your own, or is God pulling the strings behind every neuron? Do you, or other people, have original ideas, or are ideas implanted by God?

At what point do you require that physical processes require continuous divine intervention? Can you name the process involved in evolution that specifically requires divine intervention?

341 posted on 02/20/2006 12:42:14 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138

####At what point do you require that physical processes require continuous divine intervention? Can you name the process involved in evolution that specifically requires divine intervention?####

At least some part of it would have to require divine intervention for humans to be created in God's image. Either God created the first living cell and guided it upward to create all the various life forms, with man as a special creation at the top, or God programmed the first cell to evolve upward into man. It seems hard from a theological standpoint to maintain that A) the universe is here "on its own", B) the first living cell came into existence "on its own", C) this cell evolved through random mutations "on its own" into the millions of species we see on earth, including man, but D) man is still created in the image of God.


358 posted on 02/20/2006 12:58:24 PM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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