From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Mon Dec 16 2002 - 08:11:21 EST
In a message dated 12/16/02 7:53:58 AM Eastern Standard Time,=20
gmurphy@raex.com writes:
> Christians are certainly _not_ called "to interpret the Bible from a=20
> Darwinian=20
> perspective." Instead, they should interpret evolution (which is not=20
> synonomous with=20
> "Darwinism," though Darwin's insights are major components of an adequate=20
> evolutionary=20
> theory) from a Biblical perspective.
> =20
Charles Darwin articulated the processes of natural selection. It is=20
selection that runs through the Bible. Natural selection is the Biblical=20
perspective, not evolution which can be applied to any type of system=20
biological or otherwise, no quite specifically, darwin himself pointed out=20
the Bible's reference to the "principles of selection" in biological systems=
:
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In Chapter 1 of Charles Darwin=E2=80=99s The Origin of Species, titled Varia=
tion=20
under Domestication under the heading Principles of Selection Anciently=20
Followed and Their Effects, Darwin makes the following reference: =E2=80=9CF=
rom=20
passages in Genesis, it is clear that the colour of domestic animals was at=20
that early period attended to.=E2=80=9D =20
He says principles of selection which describes perfectly Darwin's biologica=
l=20
focus, not principles of evolution.=20
rich
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