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Robert L. Miller (102733.3377@compuserve.com)
28 Mar 96 01:48:31 ESTThank you Glenn for working on my questions. In response to my question about
the relationship between hominids and the historical first couple you replied
that we need to define what a human is and that some have postulated that God
intervened at some point along the way of hominid development and called the
suitably advanced model Adam and Eve. (Sorry about the paraphrase |: ) I have a
couple of problems with that theory. First, its only reason for existence seems
to be to hook the hominids to scripture. I have never heard any scriptural or
extrabiblical support for this idea. Secondly, it doesn't get around the problem
of a first couple. If God had waited until the hominids had evolved to
Cro-Magnon, then breathed into some couple the breath of life to make them the
first couple, what happened to the rest of the Cro-Magnon population? It doesn't
seem to fit God's character to just wipe them out.
To my question about unanswerable questions you replied "Sure but people are too
quick to use this as a cop out to avoid having to answer difficult questions." I
have heard that phrase before also. I suspect that the answer to the exact
process that God used to create the first couple is akin to the question of
God's soverignity versus man's free will or other questions we Christians have
been arguing about for centuries. I think it is fair to say, from the
description of the creation process in Genesis, that there is a spiritual
dimension to the creation of the first couple that will never yield to a purely
physical explanation. My opinion is that God would have explained the process to
us if he thought we could understand it. I have no fear that we will avoid the
difficult questions as long as we have people like you around to prod us!
Bob Miller