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To: VadeRetro
Creationists are an embarrassment to conservatism precisely because they are evidence that the knuckle-draggin' gap-toothed slope-browed mean and dumb stereotypes are true.

Do I belive that God created everything, including man? Yes, unreservedly. Do I believe he did it in seven days, with a wave of his hand? With respect to the literalists, no. I believe God is much more subtle.

I believe God set up all the conditions necessary for man to evolve, pushed the button, and, at the appropriate time, caused the mutation that became Adam, and endowed him with a soul. Doing it this way is a far greater demonstration of his power and omniscience than a flash-bang kind of creation. It also has the salutary effect of causing scientists to go down their thought chains, hypotheses, etc, to discover, at the end.....the ineffible, that is, God.

118 posted on 12/17/2004 7:58:31 AM PST by Turk82_1 (They also serve who merely stand and wait.)
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To: Turk82_1
Theistic evolution, yes. I exclude from my previous characterizations any accomodation that lets science find what it finds and doesn't in advance mandate some results and forbid others.
119 posted on 12/17/2004 8:08:56 AM PST by VadeRetro (Nothing means anything when you go to Hell for knowing what things mean.)
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