Re: [asa] RFE Principle and Origin of Life

Johan,
You ask how God could be sure of the inevitability of life. While there
are recent views that God cannot know the future, the orthodox view has
been that he is omniscient. That he is eternal normally indicates that
past and future are part of his now. Since he is also omnipotent, what he
wants he gets. Of course, if someone can prove that the Almighty called
him in to consult before creating anything, I will stand corrected.
Meanwhile, I am persuaded that there are a large number of individuals
who are constructing their god in the image of man, writ big, of course,
but no more than superman.

How does he get what he wants? Did he design it to work things out from
the beginning, or does he direct matters in ways too subtle for us to
detect? I can only say that the insistence that the entire genetic code
would have to have been inserted in the ylem of the Big Bang for it to be
present in living things later, based on the claim that information
cannot be created, is nonsense. While we have not shown exactly how the
genes and life began, we have plenty of evidence for an increase in the
information content of genomes.
Dave

On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:08:11 +0200 Johan Jammart <j_jammart@yahoo.fr>
writes:
A simple question that I would like to ask to the list:

Since few days I'm reading a lot of stuff on the web about the RFE
principle proposed by Howard Van Till. I really appreciate it.

Is the Universe robust enough since it's beginning (Big Bang) to produce
inevitably life on earth or elsewhere? In other words how could God be
sure that His creation would inevitably produce life?

Where can I find more info (books, articles etc.) on this subject?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Blessings,

Johan J.

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